Japan carried out no executions in 2023 for ... 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 ...

This time we explore Akihabara, Japan's cutting-edge pop culture hub. It's an international shopping district packed to the brim with video games, anime-related merchandise and electronics.

He lost his challenge to commute the sentence in Japan's top court in 2015. Kato told police at the time of his arrest: "I came to Akihabara to kill people. It didn't matter who I'd kill." ...

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.

And as Japanese manufacturing prowess grew so too did Akihabara. Maids touting for business Now of course Akihabara is also home to Otaku culture, and is perhaps best known in this regard for its ...

The Japanese government this week confirmed that ... rammed a truck into a crowd of shoppers in a pedestrian zone in Tokyo's Akihabara district in broad daylight on June 8, 2008.