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

The court pointed out that Aoba had expressed sympathy for the man who was executed for committing a random killing spree in Tokyo’s Akihabara ... before the Kyoani arson attack, the court ...

He used a blade-like object to attack three people waiting for a bus near the station, police said. One of them, Hiroyuki Maruyama, a 49-year-old man, was pronounced dead in a hospital. A 37-year-old man was wounded but stayed conscious, while a 46-year-old woman suffered a head injury from falling during the attack.

TOKYO: A Japanese man sentenced to death for an arson attack that killed 36 people at an anime studio has dropped his appeal and accepted the court's penalty, a lawyer and local media said Tuesday (Jan 28).

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When Chiaki Kasai set out to make a documentary about Iwao Hakamata, a Japanese man who was acquitted in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder case after spending more than four decades on death row, s

A Chinese man who injured a Japanese mother and her child and killed a Chinese bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack near Shanghai last June has been sentenced to death.

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

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

A deadly knife attack outside Nagano train station in central Japan resulted in one death and two injuries. A search is underway for the suspect, described as an unfamiliar middle-aged man. The tragedy highlights the rarity yet impact of violent crimes in Japan.

He was indicted for murder, robbery, and arson. His mental state deteriorated over his interminable ... The documentary includes the scene when Hakamata was released from the Tokyo Detention House in March 2014, capturing his very first moments of freedom ...