Police say Kato — reportedly a factory worker — rammed a rented two-ton truck into a crowd of afternoon shoppers in Akihabara, a prime shopping area for electronic goods and a hangout for young people, particularly comic book fans.
Kato himself reportedly had a penchant for computer games and anime — like vast numbers of Japanese youths. Kyodo said he listed a female computer game character as his "favorite person" in his junior high school yearbook.
After ramming the pedestrians, the man jumped out and began stabbing the people he had knocked down with the truck before turning on horrified onlookers, police said.
The rampage shocked Japan, which boasts a low crime rate compared to other industrialized nations. Tokyo, with a population of 12.7 million, is considered relatively safe, with guns tightly restricted and shootings rare. The exception is gang violence, but gangsters do not generally attack the general public.
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