Man sentenced to death for killing 17 people in Akihabara in June 2008 executed

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.