Tokyo’s Akihabara electronics district marked on Monday the first anniversary of a vehicular and stabbing rampage that left seven people dead and 10 injured.
Tomohiro Kato, a 26-year-old former temporary worker, has been charged with running down pedestrians with a truck in a vehicle-free shopping section last June 8, a Sunday, and fatally stabbing passersby with a dagger after getting out of the truck.
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