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.

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 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 ...

The source said Shinji Aoba, 46, later regretted withdrawing his appeal against the Kyoto District Court ruling in January 2024 over the incident that killed 36 people and injured 32 at the ...

Shinji Aoba, 45, was convicted on Thursday over the blaze at the studios of Kyoto Animation -- Japan's deadliest crime in decades. On Friday, his defence team, who had entered a plea of not guilty ...

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.

Shinji Aoba is seen in Kyoto's Fushimi Ward in this May 27, 2020, file photo. (Mainichi/Tatsuya Fujii) OSAKA (Kyodo) -- A man convicted of the 2019 fatal arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co ...