Tomohiro Kato committed one of the most shocking mass murders in the country's recent history. He was 25 when he drove a truck into a lunch-time crowd of pedestrians at Akihabara shopping district ...

Tomohiro Kato, 39, was put to death at the Tokyo Detention House, Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa told a news conference hours later. Three pedestrians were killed and two injured when Kato ...

The last execution was on July 26, 2022, when Tomohiro Kato was hanged. He was convicted of murdering seven people by driving into them or stabbing them in a random attack in Tokyo’s Akihabara ...

The Japanese government this week confirmed that the death sentence handed down to a man who went on a stabbing spree in Tokyo back in 2008 has been carried out. Kato Tomohiro, then 25, rammed a ...

TOKYO, July 26. /TASS/. Japanese citizen Tomohiro Kato, who carried out a massacre in Tokyo’s Akihabara District in June 2008, has been executed Tuesday morning, Kyodo reported citing its sources.