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case: It is an extremely cruel and brutal case in which the happily living family members, including an eight year old and 11 year old, were all murdered because of truly selfish reasons, she said. ; Wei, a 40-year-old former language student in Japan, had pleaded guilty to the four murder counts but had contended he was not a central figure in the case, according to Asahi Shimbun. The trio, reportedly allured by money, robbed the home of Japanese businessman Shinjiro Matsumoto, 41, in the south-western city of Fukuoka in June 2003 and strangled him with a tie. Ms Masako Mori said she ordered the execution of Wei Wei after careful consideration over robbery and multiple murders carried out with two other students in 2003. His 40-year-old wife Chika was drowned in a bathtub and the children strangled or smothered. ; The victims' bodies were found dumped in Hakata Bay in Fukuoka, handcuffed and weighted down. According to the Asahi Shimbun daily, the first execution of a foreigner since the ministry began announcing the names of those executed was in 2009.A Chinese man was hanged for killing three Chinese whom he lived with near Tokyo and for injuring three, the Asahi said. The other two suspects fled to China but were arrested there. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.