Sentence over 2008 Akihabara rampage

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 9, 2012, shows an intersection in Tokyo's Akihabara district, site of a stabbing rampage in 2008. The Tokyo High Court on Sept. 12, 2012, upheld the death sentence given to Tomohiro Kato, a 29-year-old man, for killing seven people and injuring 10 others in the rampage.

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