A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of setting an animation studio on fire, killing 36 people and injuring dozens of others. The Kyoto District Court found ...

TOKYO (AP) — The suspect in a deadly fire at a mental health clinic in Osaka last week might have studied the fatal 2019 Kyoto Animation studio arson while preparing his own attack that killed 25 ...

The Kyoto District Court sentenced Shinji Aoba, the arsonist who set fire to Kyoto Animation Studio 1 and killed 36 people, to death. The judge believed that Aoba was of sound mind when he went ...

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 ...

KYOTO, Japan — 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 ...

As a refresher, the Kyoto Animation arson attack took place on July 18, 2019 when Aoba set fire to Kyoto Animation’s Studio 1 building. This fire killed 36 people and injured 34. This makes it one of ...

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 ...

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 ...