The Kyoto District Court handed down a guilty verdict to Aoba on January 25, 2024. The defense representing Aoba filed an ...

The suspected arsonist behind the deadly Kyoto Animation attack has been sentenced to a death penalty. The anime studio has produced numerous beloved projects.

Shinji Aoba withdraws death sentence appeal in Kyoto Animation Arson case. Tragic arson attack resulted in 36 deaths and ...

A man charged with the 2019 fatal arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio has dropped his appeal to overturn his death ...

A death-row inmate's legal team has asked the Osaka High Court to nullify the defendant's withdrawal of his appeal against ...

Shinji Aoba, now 46, killed 36 people in one of Japan’s deadliest mass murders in recent history - Anadolu Ajansı ...

A man charged with the 2019 fatal arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio has dropped his appeal to overturn his death ...

Monday, January 27, 2025 saw the Osaka High Court officially announce that Shinji Aoba, the Kyoto Animation arson suspect, has withdrawn the appeal to his previous death sentence.

Thirty-six people died when he broke into a studio building and set it on fire. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Osaka High Court announced that Shinji Aoba, the suspect of the arson murder case that killed 36 people and wounded 32 others at Kyoto Animation, has withdrawn the appeal to his death sentence on ...