Suspect in June 8 Akihabara rampage indicted after being certified as sane

Friday 10th October, 04:34 PM JST

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LIBERTAS at 06:57 PM JST - 10th October

Certified as sane? Mentally competent to understand the gravity of his actions, and to be held accountable for them, maybe. Sane? Most definitely not. Unless....this too is a unique descriptor for Japanese. If this is sanity, then society here is much worse off than I could ever have imagined.
jeancolmar at 09:22 PM JST - 10th October

Kato is not sane. He maybe sane under the old rule of whether he knew right from wrong, but that 19th century legal standard is outdated. To adhere to that legal definition of insanity you have hear voices telling you that you are the Angel of Death. Kato did not hear voices. He was so miserable that he wanted to die, and he was so mad at the world that he wanted to kill people who were not as miserable as he was.

Judged sane, he will be hung. This is what he wanted.

Hanging him will not deter people like him from committing similar acts.
sageb1 at 09:51 PM JST - 10th October

Stop mollycoddling Japan's youth! Kibbutz them!
jeancolmar at 10:56 PM JST - 10th October

That was Kato's idea.
8iamhappy8 at 02:12 AM JST - 11th October

People's brainwave patterns change right before they commit murder. Their handwriting also changes.