THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 26, 2022 at 15:45 JST
Tomohiro Kato was hanged July 26 in Tokyo for the slayings of seven people in Tokyo’s Akihabara district on June 8, 2008. (From high school yearbook)
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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