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Sentence over 2008 Akihabara rampage

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on June 8, 2008, shows police examining the site of a stabbing rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district. 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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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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Site around Akihabara stabbing rampage

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on June 8, 2008, shows an intersection in Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district around where Tomohiro Kato hit five pedestrians, of whom three were killed and two were injured, with a truck and fatally stabbed four people on the same day. The Tokyo District Court sentenced Kato to death on March 24, 2011, over the incident.

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Man pleads guilty to carrying out Akihabara stabbing spree

TOKYO, Japan - People line up outside the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 28, 2010 to get gallery seat tickets for the first hearing of Tomohiro Kato, who is charged with a 2008 fatal stabbing spree in the capital's Akihabara district.

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Man pleads guilty to carrying out Akihabara stabbing spree

TOKYO, Japan - Vehicles are seen in the crossing in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Jan. 24, 2010, where a fatal stabbing spree by a knife-wielding man occurred in 2008. Defendant Tomohiro Kato pleaded guilty to killing seven people and wounding 10 others during his first hearing at the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 28.

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Mr. Tomohiro Kato

AOMORI, Japan - An undated photo of Tomohiro Kato, a suspect in Sunday's stabbing rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district, taken from his high school album. The 25-year-old temp staf worker at an auto component factory in Shizuoka Prefecture has admitted to hitting pedestrians with a truck and stabbing passersby with a knife at around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday in broad daylight on a street in Tokyo's busy Akihabara electronics district, leaving seven dead and 10 others injured. (Kyodo)

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Suspect in Akihabara attack shops for knives in Fukui

TOKYO, Japan - Tomohiro Kato, the suspect who unleashed a random killing spree in Akihabara, Tokyo, June 9 that left seven people dead and 10 people injured, is seen at a military goods shop in Fukui on June 6, in a picture taken from a security camera. Police say Kato, 25, from Shizuoka, bought six knives, including a dagger used in the killing spree. According to the police and witnesses, Kato drove a 2-ton truck into pedestrians at a street junction in Akihabara, then got out the vehicle and stabbed more victims with a dagger. (Kyodo)

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Killer bared his soul on website prior to stabbings in Akihabara

TOKYO, Japan - Tomohiro Kato (R), the suspect in the June 8 stabbing spree in Akihabara, looks down as he leaves Manseibashi Police Station in Tokyo to be taken to prosecutors. Kato set up a cellphone website on which he posted threats prior to fatally stabbing seven people. (Kyodo)

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Site around Akihabara stabbing rampage

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on June 8, 2008, shows an intersection in Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district around where Tomohiro Kato hit five pedestrians, of whom three were killed and two were injured, with a truck and fatally stabbed four people on the same day. The Tokyo District Court sentenced Kato to death on March 24, 2011, over the incident. (Kyodo)

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Man pleads guilty to carrying out Akihabara stabbing spree

TOKYO, Japan - People line up outside the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 28, 2010 to get gallery seat tickets for the first hearing of Tomohiro Kato, who is charged with a 2008 fatal stabbing spree in the capital's Akihabara district. (Kyodo)

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Man pleads guilty to carrying out Akihabara stabbing spree

TOKYO, Japan - Vehicles are seen in the crossing in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Jan. 24, 2010, where a fatal stabbing spree by a knife-wielding man occurred in 2008. Defendant Tomohiro Kato pleaded guilty to killing seven people and wounding 10 others during his first hearing at the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 28. (Kyodo)