Japan executed three men on Tuesday, including a 65-year-old convict, in what is believed to be the first executions carried out under the rule of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who took office in October. The executions were also deemed to be the first in two years since Japan’s last execution in 2019. The first convict, Yasutaka Fujishiro, 65, was hanged for killing his 80-year-old aunt, two cousins, and four other of his relatives in Hyogo Prefecture in 2004. Fujishiro was sentenced to death in May 2009 by the Kobe District Court, and made an appeal to the Supreme Court in 2015 but was rejected. The two other convicts, Tomoaki Takanezawa, 54, and Mitsunori Onogawa, 44, were executed for killing two employees at two separate pachinko parlors in Gunma Prefecture in 2003. The Supreme Court finalized the death penalty for Takanezawa in July 2005, and Onogawa in June 2009. Deputy Chief …