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Uneasy young kills 7, wounds 17 as a hobby in Tokyo
MIL/Agencies/AFP, Jun 9, 2008. International Reporter (IRS)/AFP

Tokyo, Japan: June 9, 2008-AFP/ International Reporter (IRS)- A serial killer, 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato, is reported to have wounded 17 people, seven of whom died, before the police caught hold of him. The police forced him to drop his weapon at gunpoint and besieged him.

The Stabber told the police that he was tired of life and simply wanted to kill people, no matter who comes his way.

Kato is reported to have a strong interest in comic-books and video-game subculture. He had interest in action heroes, not knowing what he wanted in life. .
He admitted to police that he had documented his journey on Internet bulletin boards in messages posted from his mobile telephone, a police spokesman said.

"I'll crash my vehicle into people and if the vehicle becomes useless, I'll get out a knife. Goodbye everyone!" said one posting hours before the crime, as quoted by Japanese media.

Reports said he made some 30 anonymous postings on various sites before the crime, including one on May 27 entitled "A disaster in Akihabara ," warning that an incident would take place imminently.

Kanto Auto Works, the company to which Kato was dispatched from a temping agency in November, said he had been working normally until going missing on Friday.

"We've been told that his attitude at work was very good and that he didn't stir any problems in the workplace," said company spokesman Naoyuki Hashimoto.
Residents of Kato's hometown interviewed by Nippon Television said that he did well at school. "He was good both at studying and sports. He was respected in the classroom," one woman said.

Japan prides itself on its public safety and has not seen such a deadly crime since a former mental patient stabbed to death eight children at an elementary school. That incident came seven years to the day before Sunday's stabbing spree.

Chief government spokesman Nobutaka Machimura said officials would study whether laws could be tightened on possession of knives. Japan strictly controls firearms.

"People say that public morality and relations between people are declining," Machmiura said. "But I don't think we can explain this case only by that."

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