TOKYO (AFP): The man accused of the 2016 murder of 19 disabled people a a Japanese care home goes on trial Wednesday (Jan 8) in a case that ranks among the country's worst mass killings.
Satoshi Uematsu, a former employee of the care centre outside Tokyo, has admitted carrying out the stabbing rampage, but his lawyer is expected to enter a plea of not guilty on grounds of diminished capacity.
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