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Japan on Tuesday executed a gentleman convicted of killing 7 men and women in a truck ramming and stabbing rampage in Tokyo's common Akihabara electronics district in 2008, the justice ministry claimed.(*8*)

Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa claimed Tomohiro Kato experienced carried out "meticulous preparing" for the assault and exhibited a "robust intent to get rid of".(*8*)

"The dying sentence in this scenario was finalised by means of ample deliberation in court docket," he informed reporters.(*8*)

"Based mostly on this simple fact, I permitted the execution right after very complete scrutiny."(*8*)

Kato went on the stabbing spree on June 8, 2008, telling law enforcement: "I arrived to Akihabara to get rid of men and women. It failed to make any difference who I would get rid of."(*8*)

He was arrested on the place soon right after the assaults, in which he rammed a rented two-tonne truck into a group of pedestrians prior to finding out and randomly stabbing men and women.(*8*)

"This is a quite distressing scenario that led to very grave repercussions and stunned modern society," Furukawa claimed Tuesday.(*8*)

Law enforcement claimed Kato documented his lethal journey to Akihabara on Online bulletin boards, typing messages on a cellular cellphone from driving the wheel of the truck and complaining of his unstable career and his loneliness.(*8*)

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The son of a banker, Kato grew up in Aomori prefecture in Japan's north, wherever he graduated from a best significant university. He unsuccessful his college entrance tests and at some point experienced as an vehicle mechanic, reviews claimed.(*8*)

Prosecutors claimed Kato's self-self confidence experienced plummeted right after a girl he experienced chatted with on the internet abruptly stopped emailing him right after he despatched her a photograph of himself.(*8*)

His anger in opposition to the common community grew when his reviews on an Online bulletin board, which includes his ideas to go on a killing spree, have been achieved with no response at all, prosecutors claimed.(*8*)

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Although awaiting demo, Kato wrote to a fifty six-calendar year-previous taxi driver whom he hurt in the stabbing spree, expressing his regret.(*8*)

The victims "have been taking pleasure in their life, and they experienced desires, vivid futures, heat people, fans, close friends and colleagues," Kato wrote in accordance to a duplicate revealed in the Shukan Asahi weekly.(*8*)

And in court docket, he presented regret for the assault.(*8*)

"Make sure you allow me use this event to apologise," he claimed about the bloody rampage that also remaining ten men and women hurt.(*8*)

Immediately after the 2008 rampage, Japan banned possession of double-edged knives with blades for a longer time than 5.5 centimetres (about two inches), punishable by up to a few many years in jail or a five hundred,000 yen high-quality.(*8*)

The assault was Japan's worst mass killing in 7 many years and Kato was sentenced to dying in 2011, a determination that was upheld by Japan's best court docket in 2015.(*8*)

Kato's execution is the initially in Japan this calendar year and will come right after a few prisoners have been hanged in December 2021. People executions finished a two-calendar year hiatus and have been the initially underneath Key Minister Fumio Kishida's administration.(*8*)

Japan is one particular of the number of produced nations around the world to keep the dying penalty, and community assistance for cash punishment continues to be significant irrespective of intercontinental criticism.(*8*)

Executions are carried out by hanging, commonly lengthy right after sentencing. Much more than a hundred men and women are at present on dying row in Japan.(*8*)

Worldwide advocacy teams have denounced the Japanese technique, underneath which dying row inmates can hold out for their executions for numerous many years in solitary confinement and are only informed of their impending dying a number of hrs forward of time.(*8*)

Tuesday's execution will come on the anniversary of a different big stabbing assault -- the 2016 Sagamihara rampage at a disabled treatment facility, in which 19 men and women have been killed.(*8*)

Japan also carried out the executions of 6 associates of the Aum Shinrikyo cult accountable for the 1995 sarin assault and other crimes on July 26, 2018.(*8*)

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