{"id":46755,"date":"2022-07-26T12:12:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T03:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/26\/japan-executes-man-over-tokyo-stabbing-rampage-reports"},"modified":"2022-07-26T12:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T03:12:52","slug":"japan-executes-man-over-tokyo-stabbing-rampage-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46755","title":{"rendered":"Japan executes man over Tokyo stabbing rampage \u2013 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomohiro Kato, who killed seven people in 2008, was hanged on Tuesday in Japan\u2019s first execution this year<\/p>\n<p>A man convicted of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2008\/jun\/09\/japan.internationalcrime1\">stabbing seven people to death<\/a> during a frenzied attack in Tokyo 14 years ago has been executed, Japanese media said.<\/p>\n<p>The public broadcaster NHK and other news outlets said Tomohiro Kato, 39, had been hanged on Tuesday for the June 2008 rampage, which began when he drove his two-tonne truck into a crowd of pedestrians in Akihabara, a district of the capital known for its electronics stores and geek subculture.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/26\/japan-executes-man-over-tokyo-stabbing-rampage-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomohiro Kato, who killed seven people in 2008, was hanged on Tuesday in Japan\u2019s first execution this yearA man convicted of stabbing seven people to death during a frenzied attack in Tokyo 14 years ago has been executed, Japanese media said.The public&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capital-punishment","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46756,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46755\/revisions\/46756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}