Shinji Aoba, the convicted mass murderer sentenced to death for setting a fire at a Kyoto Animation Co. studio that killed 36 people, has withdrawn his appeal, The Asahi Shimbun learned on Jan. 28.

Japanese paper The Mainichi reports that a source they trust gave the reason why arsonist Shinji Aoba initially dropped his ...

A man convicted of the 2019 fatal arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio dropped his appeal against his death sentence ...

Kyoto Animation, better known as KyoAni ... district killed 44 people in the country’s worst known case of arson in modern times. Police never announced an arrest in the setting of the blaze ...

They say they will wait for him to recover before they investigate his motives and other details of the suspected arson. Kyoto Animation is also known as "Kyo-Ani." It has produced popular TV and ...

Defense lawyers for Shinji Aoba, the convicted mass murderer sentenced to die for the arson attack at a Kyoto Animation Co. studio., are seeking to nullify his withdrawal of the appeal of the ruling.

To honor those who died in the 2019 arson incident, Kyoto Animation is preparing to open a new public memorial statue. Kyoto Animation’s arsonist has been sentenced to death, and the studio’s ...

After years of recovery from the tragic 2019 arson attack, Kyoto Animation is back on track, pushing forward with projects ...