Thirty-six people died when he broke into a studio building and set it on fire. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Shinji Aoba, who was sentenced to death over the July 2019 arson attack on a Kyoto Animation studio, has withdrawn his appeal, finalizing the ruling, sources said Tuesday. According to the Osaka ...

KYOTO--The defendant in a horrific arson attack that killed 36 people at a Kyoto Animation Co. studio in 2019 admitted to the charges in his first hearing at the Kyoto District Court on Sept.

He used a blade-like object to attack three people waiting for a bus near the station, police said. One of them, Hiroyuki ...

TOKYO: A Japanese man sentenced to death for an arson attack that killed 36 people at an anime studio has dropped his appeal ...