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Yomiuri Shimbun file photo Police officers inspect the site of the mass murder at the Akihabara district, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on June 8, 2008.
Jiji Press
9:53 JST, July 26, 2022
Tokyo, July 26 (Jiji Press)—Japan on Tuesday executed Tomohiro Kato, 39, the killer in a stabbing spree that occurred in Tokyo’s busy Akihabara district in 2008, government sources said.
In the rampage, Kato, a former dispatched worker, rammed a truck into a pedestrian zone near East Japan Railway Co.’s Akihabara Station, hitting passersby before stabbing others randomly with a knife. Seven people died and 10 others were left injured.
The execution came seven years and five months after Kato’s death sentence was finalized.
