The red-brick building of the Ministry of Justice is seen in Tokyo in this file photo. (Mainichi)

       TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Three death-row inmates were executed Tuesday, the Ministry of Justice said, in Japan's first executions since December 2019 and first under the administration of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

       The three were identified as Yasutaka Fujishiro, 65, who killed seven of his relatives in Hyogo Prefecture in 2004, and Tomoaki Takanezawa, 54, and Mitsunori Onogawa, 44, who were convicted of killing two pachinko parlor employees in Gunma Prefecture in 2003.

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