The suspected arsonist behind the deadly Kyoto Animation attack has been sentenced to a death penalty. The anime studio has ...

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

An attack by Aoba in July 2019 at a studio run by the animation powerhouse caused the deaths of 36 people and injured 32 ...

Authorities in Japan say one person is dead and two others are injured after a knife attack Wednesday night outside a train ...

One of the most touching tributes to the victims lost in the Kyoto Animation incident is a statue in Japan’s Kyoto Prefecture. Staning ten feet tall, the statue itself consists of thirty-six birds to ...

Police in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, have arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of arson after he allegedly burned down the house of a former classmate. According to police, the boy is suspected ...

KYOTO—Shinji Aoba, perpetrator of the worst postwar mass murder in Japan, was sentenced to death on Jan. 25 for killing 36 people in an arson attack at a Kyoto Animation Co. studio in 2019.

Violent crimes are rare in Japan, which has strict gun control laws. But in recent years there have been a number of high-profile cases involving random knife attacks and arson on subways.

Police rushed to the scene and arrested Seiji Ishido on suspicion of arson after he ignited the oil ... that he had not been paid unemployment insurance benefits. Japan's snowy escape in northern ...

Violent crimes are rare in Japan, which has strict gun control laws. But in recent years there have been a number of high-profile cases involving random knife attacks and arson on subways.