News - Akihabara massacre
Prosecutors in Tokyo have given the go-ahead to indict a man who went on a stabbing rampage last June that left seven people dead and injured 10 others.
Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo Tokyo, 16 June - Police have arrested three people on suspicion of threatening via electronic bulletin boards to carry out attacks, including murder, since the 8 June stabbing spree in Tokyo's Akihabara district, the National Police Agency said Monday.
World News IN BRIEF *TOKYO The man arrested after a rampage in a Tokyo street that left seven people dead planned his attack days previously and left a series of warnings on the internet, police said.
By Shino Yuasa TOKYO - A man plowed into shoppers with a truck Sunday and then stabbed 17 people within minutes, killing at least seven of them in a grisly attack that shocked a country known for its low crime rate.
Tokyo, June 9 (Jiji Press)--Japan's National Police Agency on Monday asked four telecommunications industry bodies to notify police if they find messages warning of crimes on Internet bulletin boards, in the wake of a knifing spree in central Tokyo's Akihabara district Sunday.
