Tomohiro Kato: Japan executes Akihabara mass murderer, say reports

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Tomohiro Kato was 25 when he killed seven people in a busy Tokyo shopping district in 2008.

Japan has executed a 39-year-old man who killed seven people in Tokyo in 2008 during a stabbing rampage, local media outlets have reported.He was 25 when he drove a truck into a lunch-time crowd of pedestrians at Akihabara shopping district, killing three people.He was apprehended by police at the scene and later admitted his crimes in his trial, saying he had been angered by online bullying.

at the time over random killings, online influence and the failures in mental health support for young people. On Tuesday, Japanese media reported that Kato, now 39, had been hanged in the Tokyo Detention Centre. It is the country's first execution this year. It hung three people last December and more than 100 prisoners remain on death row.

 

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