Japan carried out its first execution of the year July 26 when it hanged a man convicted of killing seven people in a random stabbing spree ... of people in Tokyo’s Akihabara district in 2008.

He was convicted of murdering seven people 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 time of ...

For over two years after the rampage, the streets of Akihabara were no longer closed ... scene through his work as a taxi driver. He was stabbed as he ran to help someone on the ground and lost ...