Kyodo News reported today (26th), citing a government official, that a convict was executed 14 years ago in downtown Tokyo, Japan, who killed 7 people with a 'don't ask murder'.
The Japanese Ministry of Justice executed Tomohiro Kato, 39, who was serving a death sentence for murder this morning.
It is the second time an execution was carried out under the government of Fumio Kishida, which took office in October last year, following December last year.
After graduating from high school, Kato, who moved between transport company employees and dispatched workers, drove his truck to a street near Tokyo Electric Railway Akihabara Station at 12:30 pm on a holiday on June 8, 2008, hitting passersby, and then got off the car and shopped around. stabbed with a knife.
Seven passers-by were killed and 10 injured in the attack.
"If I had a girlfriend, I wouldn't have given up on my job," he wrote, voicing his feelings of inferiority and frustration on the Internet before the crime.
After being arrested, he stated, "I went to Akihabara to kill people. Anyone was fine."
There is debate over the existence of the death penalty in Japan, but the government still maintains the system.
Previously, in 2018, 13 people were executed, including Shoko Asahara of Aum Shinrikyo, an emerging religious group that caused the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack.
(Photo = Yonhap News)