Shinji Aoba was found guilty Thursday of setting fire to an anime studio in Kyoto, Japan in 2019 Kirsty Hatcher is an Associate Editor on the People.com Morning Team. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of setting an animation studio on fire, killing 36 people and injuring dozens of others. The Kyoto District Court found ...