KYOTO--Prosecutors on Dec. 7 demanded the death sentence for Shinji Aoba, the defendant in an arson attack that killed 36 ...

A Japanese court on Thursday announced the death sentence for Aoba Shinji, the man who burned down the Kyoto Anime studio in 2019 and killed 36 people. There was little doubt that Aoba, who himself ...

KYOTO—Shinji Aoba, perpetrator of the worst postwar mass murder in Japan, was sentenced to death on Jan. 25 for killing 36 ...

The legal team of Shinji Aoba, who was convicted in the arson fire that killed 36 people and wounded 32 others at Kyoto Animation, asked the Osaka High Court to nullify Aoba's withdrawal of his appeal ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of murder and other crimes Thursday for carrying out an arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto that killed 36 people.

This picture taken on May 27, 2020 shows Shinji Aoba, the defendant in the Kyoto Animation arson murder case, being transported to a police station in Kyoto. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP) / Japan OUT ...

KYOTO, Japan -- A man screaming "You die!" burst into an animation studio in Kyoto, doused it with a flammable liquid and set it on fire Thursday, killing 33 people in an attack that shocked the ...

This July will mark four years since an arson attack took the lives of 36 employees and injured another 32 working at Kyoto Animation’s Studio 1. Today, the company outlined its plans to construct two ...

More than 30 people died and dozens of others were injured in a suspected arson attack at a Japanese animation studio in Kyoto on Thursday morning, according to multiple reports. Update 6:00 a.m. EDT ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — The Latest on a fire in a ...