Japan executes man for mass truck attack, its first execution this year

Japan carried out its first execution of 2022 on a man who was convicted of plowing a truck into a crowd in 2008 on Tuesday. Tomohiro Kato killed seven people in the attack, which saw him driving a vehicle into a large crowd in Tokyo. He exited the vehicle after it came to a stop and began stabbing people at random. "I came to Akihabara to kill people. It didn't matter who I'd kill," Kato told police of his crimes. Akihabara is a district within Tokyo. Kato reportedly documented his plan of atta