JAPANESE MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING SEVEN

the Kobe District Court in Japan sentenced to death a 52-year-old man for murdering seven relatives and neighbours. Chief judge Makoto Okada heard that Yasutaka Fujishiro allegedly used a hammer and a knife to kill his 80-year-old aunt, two cousins and four others in August 2004. Fujishiro was driven by a long-standing grudge against his relatives and neighbours.