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 ...

KYOTO—Shinji Aoba, perpetrator of the worst postwar mass murder in Japan ... for committing a random killing spree in Tokyo’s Akihabara district in 2008. Aoba had planned an indiscriminate ...

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 ...