Shinji Aoba was found guilty Thursday of setting fire to an anime studio in Kyoto, Japan in 2019 STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty; Yomiuri Shimbun via AP A Japanese court has sentenced a man to death over ...

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 ...

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 Animation is still reeling from the 2019 arson that took the lives of 36 people. For more than a year now, officials in Japan have gathered as the trial of suspect Shinji Aoba carried on. Last ...

In July 2018, one of the greatest tragedies to hit the anime industry unfurled. Kyoto Animation and its employees were the victims of an arson assault that took the lives of thirty-six people, ...

A 45-year-old man has been sentenced to death for the 2019 arson attack on Japanese animation studio Kyoto Animation, in which 36 people were killed and 32 more were injured. According to broadcaster ...

A man who deliberately set fire to a three-story animation studio in the Japanese city of Kyoto in 2019, killing 36 people, has been sentenced to death for mass murder. The guilty man, Shinji Aoba, is ...