Japan man sentenced to death for stabbing 7

Tomohiro Kato, who killed seven people in a bloody feast stabbed in a Tokyo electronics district Akihabara neon almost three years ago, was sentenced to death Thursday.
The Tokyo District Court gave the verdict of the 28-year old car factory temporary worker who had told the court he was "fully responsible" for attacks which also injured 10 others.

Kato was arrested at the scene shortly after the attacks lunch time, where it collided with a truck leased to two tons on a crowd of pedestrians on public holidays before going out and stabbing people at random with a knife double-edged sword.
"The defendant used a knife to attack those who just happened to be there and took the lives of many people who were totally innocent," said Presiding Judge Hiroaki Murayama, according to agencies broadcaster NHK and news.
"It was a brutal crime that did not an ounce of humanity from the defendant. I have no choice but to sentence him to death. "
Kato, dressed in a black suit and white shirt, sat motionless as he listened to the sentence to read.
The attacks have shocked the world and Japan, which has a low rate of violent crime, while throwing the spotlight on online bullying that led to the attacks in Akihabara, a center of the manga comic and anime subculture film.
In one of the court, Kato said he went on the rampage June 8, 2008, because he had been the target of online bullying.
"I wanted people to know that I seriously wanted to stop harassment on the Internet bulletin board that I used, he said, according to Japanese media.
Japan had not seen such a deadly attack seven years earlier in the day when a former mental patient stabbed to death eight children at a primary school.
After the devastation of 2008, Japan banned the possession of double-edged knives with blades longer than 5.5 centimeters (two inches), a maximum sentence of three years imprisonment or a fine of ¥ 500,000.