Their bodies were weighed down and dumped in Hakata Bay, the Asahi Shimbun reported.
The Chinese man hanged in 2009 had ¸íǰst=¸íǰst killed three Chinese people he lived with in Tokyo.
The increase in executions in 2018 was the ´ä·Ê¶± consequence of a Sarin nerve agent attack on the Tokyo underground system in 1995 by Aum Shinrikyo, an obscure religious group that believed the end of the world was coming.
Thirteen people died and at least 5,800 were injured in the attack.