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   Japan has executed a man convicted of killing seven people in a   
   stabbing rampage in Tokyo’s popular Akihabara electronics   
   district in 2008.   
      
   Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa said Tomohiro Kato had   
   undertaken “meticulous preparation” for the attack and had shown   
   a “strong intent” to kill.   
      
   “The death sentence in this case was finalised through   
   sufficient deliberation in court,” he told reporters.   
      
   “Based on this fact, I approved the execution after extremely   
   thorough scrutiny.”   
      
   The June 2008 attack, which also injured 10 people, began with   
   Kato driving a truck into a crowd. After stabbing several   
   people, the then 25-year-old was arrested at the scene, telling   
   police: “I came to Akihabara to kill people. It didn’t matter   
   who I’d kill.”   
      
   Police said he documented his journey to Akihabara on internet   
   bulletin boards, typing messages on a mobile phone from behind   
   the wheel of the truck and complaining of his unstable job and   
   loneliness.   
      
   Japan’s top court confirmed Kato’s death sentence in 2015,   
   saying there was “no grounds for leniency”. The attack was the   
   country’s worst mass killing in seven years.   
      
   The son of a banker, Kato grew up in Aomori prefecture in   
   Japan’s north, where he graduated from a top high school. He   
   failed his university entrance exams and eventually trained as a   
   car mechanic, reports said.   
      
   Prosecutors said Kato’s self-confidence had plummeted after a   
   woman he had chatted with online abruptly stopped emailing him   
   after he sent her a photograph of himself.   
      
   His anger against the general public grew when his online   
   comments, including his plans for a killing spree, drew no   
   reaction, prosecutors said.   
      
   While awaiting trial, Kato wrote to a 56-year-old taxi driver   
   whom he injured in the stabbing spree, expressing his remorse.   
      
   The victims “were enjoying their lives, and they had dreams,   
   bright futures, warm families, lovers, friends and colleagues,”   
   Kato wrote according to a copy published in the Shukan Asahi   
   weekly.   
      
   Kato’s execution is the first in Japan this year and comes after   
   three prisoners were hanged in December 2021. Those were the   
   first executions in the country in two years.   
      
   The use of the death penalty in Japan is shrouded in secrecy.   
   Those on death row might only find out the sentence will be   
   carried out a few hours before or sometimes not at all, while   
   their families are usually only notified afterwards, according   
   to Amnesty International.   
      
   Amnesty, which is opposed to the death penalty in all cases,   
   says the general trend around the world remains towards the   
   abolition of capital punishment.   
      
   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/26/japan-executes-man-over-   
   2008-stabbing-rampage-reports   
      
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