Shinji Aoba has been sentenced to death for setting fire to an anime studio in Kyoto in 2019, killing 36 people and injuring 32 others.

Japan's Kyoto District court on Thursday sentenced a man to death after he was found guilty of murder in the 2019 arson of an animation studio that killed dozens and injured others.

A Japan court sentenced a man to death, finding him guilty of murder and other crimes for a 2019 arson attack on a Kyoto anime studio that killed 36.

A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced a 45-year-old man to death for setting fire to the renowned Kyoto Animation studio in 2019, which left 36 people dead in the country’s worst mass killing ...

TOKYO, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced Shinji Aoba to death for the fatal 2019 arson attack at a Kyoto Animation Co. studio that killed 36 people. Aoba, 45, from Saitama ...

Arsonist Sentenced to Death for Killing 36 People in 2019 Kyoto Studio Fire Shinji Aoba was charged with murder in 2020 after dousing a studio with gasoline and lighting it on fire.

Fire at Japanese animation studio leaves dozens dead A Japanese court sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of murder and other crimes Thursday for carrying out a shocking arson attack ...

Lawyers argued that Shinji Aoba was mentally unstable when he set fire in 2019 to a Kyoto animation studio, killing 36 and injuring 32.