THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 26, 2022 at 15:45 JST
The truck Tomohiro Kato used to deliberately ram a crowd of people in a pedestrian zone of Tokyo’s Akihabara district on June 8, 2008 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Japan carried out its first execution of the year July 26 when it hanged a man convicted of killing seven people in a random stabbing spree that started after he deliberately rammed a rented truck into a crowd of people in Tokyo’s Akihabara district in 2008. [Read More]
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