TOKYO: A Japanese hacker who hijacked computers in order to issue death threats, leading to the arrest of several innocent people, was jailed for his high-stakes games of cat and mouse with police.
Yusuke Katayama, 32, used computers around the country to make a series of threats in 2012, including that he would kill multiple people at a comic book event, attack an airplane and target a kindergarten attended by the grandchildren of Emperor Akihito.
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