Prosecutors described the arson attack as “revenge driven by a ... The number of victims is believed to the largest in a murder case in Japan during the postwar period. The National Police ...

Authorities in Japan say one person is dead and two others are injured after a knife attack Wednesday night outside a train ...

UJI, Kyoto Prefecture--A monument honoring the 36 lives lost in an arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio has been erected in a park here, five years after Japan's deadliest mass killing in ...

At least 33 people died and dozens were injured after a man set fire to an animation studio in the Japanese city of Kyoto, officials say. Police said the 41-year-old suspect broke into the Kyoto ...

A Japanese man has been sentenced to death for an arson attack at an arts studio in Kyoto which killed 36 people and wounded dozens more. The 2019 incident, one of the deadliest arson attacks in ...

Bereaved relatives placed flowers and offered prayers Tuesday at the site of a mental health clinic in Osaka where 26 people perished in a fire set by an arsonist in 2021. The fire was started at ...

Police in Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture, have arrested a 42-year-old ex-firefighter on suspicion of arson in 10 incidents. Police said Akira Suzuki is accused of setting fire to two vacant wooden ...

even though his lawyers tried to argue that he was mentally unfit to be held responsible for the deadly arson. NHK, TV Asahi and other Japanese media reported Aoba was sentenced to death for the ...

Fans around the globe have reacted with shock to the deadly fire at Japanese anime studio Kyoto ... in a blaze which is suspected to be an arson attack. Messages like, "Stay strong KyoAni.