A former Japanese mental patient charged with stabbing...

A former Japanese mental patient charged with stabbing eight schoolchildren to death in June pleaded guilty, saying he wanted to pay for the brutal crime with his life.
"It is true that I fatally stabbed children and others with a kitchen knife. I want to atone for my offences with my life," Kyodo news agency quoted Mamoru Takuma, 38, as saying at the first hearing of his trial at Osaka District Court in western Japan.