He was convicted of murdering seven people by driving into them or stabbing them in a random attack in Tokyo’s Akihabara district in 2008. Yoshihisa Furukawa was justice minister at the time of ...

Anime fans have long gathered in Tokyo’s Akihabara district in pursuit of subculture opulence. “I think the area’s greatest appeal is how much anime is thrown in your face there — the ...

Kato was arrested on the spot by police officers who rushed to the scene. The Tokyo District Court in March 2011 handed down the death sentence that prosecutors had sought, declaring that Kato ...

Drawings and pictures from "Astro Boy" are also on display at Anime Tokyo Station. Tokyo's Akihabara district has long been well-known as the "city of anime." But in recent years, Ikebukuro in ...

In its present form Akihabara emerged from the ruins of a devastated Tokyo after World War 2 when the entire district was burnt to the ground. The area was rebuilt in the shadow of the Akiba Jinja ...

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. The attack ...

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 ...

Kato told police at the time of his arrest: "I came to Akihabara to kill people ... his intention to carry out a mass murder. The Tokyo District Court which sentenced him in 2011 said his brutal ...

The last execution in Japan took place in July 2022, when Tomohiro Kato, convicted of the 2008 random killings in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, was put to death. The justice minister at the time ...