The doctor who treated the severe burns of convicted arsonist Shinji Aoba said he wants to continue thinking about the meaning of the life he saved. Aoba was sentenced to death on Jan. 25 for the ...

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.

Shinji Aoba, now 45, set the studio ablaze by dousing the entrance area of the building with petrol, killing 36 people and injuring 32. The attack shocked Japan and drew an outpouring of grief ...

The defense team for Shinji Aoba, 46, has submitted to the Osaka High Court a document stating the reasons for the appeal, insisting the Kyoto District Court's ruling in January was based on a ...

Japanese prosecutors are seeking death penalty for Shinji Aoba, the man charged with the 2019 arson attack on Kyoto Animation, as the final verdict is set to be delivered on January 25.

One witness says he was yelling that the studio had stolen his idea. Police say the suspect is 41-year-old Shinji Aoba from Saitama City, just north of Tokyo. He has never worked for Kyoto Animation.

Shinji Aoba started a fire in 2019 which killed 36 people in the Kyoto Animation Studio A Japanese man has been sentenced to death for an arson attack at a Kyoto animation studio in 2019 which ...