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 ...

5. Shinji Aoba is accused of killing 36 and attempting to kill 34 others by pouring gasoline and igniting the inferno inside the No. 1 studio in Kyoto’s Fushimi Ward on July 18, 2019.

Shinji Aoba, 45, had pleaded guilty to the murder charges last year but his lawyers had hoped to soften the sentence on grounds of “mental incompetence”. Chief Judge Masuda, speaking at the ...

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 ...

Shinji Aoba was taken into police custody in hospital and was being treated there for burns. The fire swept through Kyoto Animation (KyoAni) on Thursday, claiming at least 33 lives and injuring ...

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.