TOKYO (AP) — The suspect in a 2019 arson attack at an animation studio in Japan went on trial Tuesday, pleading guilty to the murder of 36 people. The trial for the deadliest crime in decades in the ...

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 ...

Tokyo — A Japanese court sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of murder and other crimes Thursday for carrying out an arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto that killed 36 people. The ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The artistic legacy of Hayao Miyazaki, the reclusive and bearded Academy Award-winning director and animator sometimes called Japan's Walt Disney, has never been more certain. Yet at ...

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 ...

FILE - Hayao Miyazaki of Japan, director of the animated film "Ponyo," poses at a special screening of the film in Los Angeles on July 27, 2009. Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio of ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — The man suspected of setting ablaze a beloved Japanese animation studio, killing 34 people, was raging about theft and witnesses and media reported he had a grudge against the company, as ...

TOKYO — Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio of Hayao Miyazaki, will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp., both sides said Thursday. Succession worries had been a ...