National Jul 29, 2019
Kyoto Animation hopes to recover drawing and storyboard data from server after arson attack
The server was located inside a concrete-lined room on the ground floor of the studio building gutted in a deadly July 18 fire.
National Jul 29, 2019
Arson-struck Kyoto Animation offered wide range of assistance
The Kyoto Animation Co. No. 1 studio, hit by an arson attack that killed 35 people, has been receiving support in a diverse range of forms, including nonmonetary aid. Masanori Fukusumi, a 58-year-old bus driver from the town of Seika in Kyoto Prefecture, found time ...
National Jul 28, 2019
The suspect in the recent Kyoto Animation Co. studio arson was spotted at locations featured in one of its works on several days before the attack, investigative sources said Sunday. Police are investigating the motives of Shinji Aoba, 41, for spreading and igniting gasoline at ...
National / Crime & Legal Jul 27, 2019
Death toll in arson attack on Kyoto anime studio rises to 35
The death toll in last week's arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio rose to 35 Saturday after a man being treated at a hospital died, police said the same day. Some of the people injured in the incident are still hospitalized. The police ...
National / Crime & Legal Jul 26, 2019
Police search home of Kyoto Animation arson suspect for clues to motive and timeline
Around 10 investigators left Shinji Aoba’s apartment in Saitama with two cardboard boxes and speakers they hope will explain the deadly attack on Kyoto Animation’s studio.
National / Crime & Legal Jul 23, 2019
Kyoto arson suspect likely spent hours scouting anime studio and brought gasoline day before
The suspect in last week's deadly arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio may have walked for hours scouting the company headquarters and the nearby area the day before the fire, even bringing gas containers to the site, investigative sources said Tuesday. Shinji Aoba, ...
National Jul 21, 2019
Unusual door to roof 'was hard to open,' survivor of fire at Kyoto anime studio says
The bodies of 19 people were found on staircases just in front of the door.
Culture Jul 20, 2019
Kyoto Animation: A unique force in Japan's anime industry
by Matt Schley
It took Kyoto Animation Co. almost 40 years to establish itself as one of the leading animation production studios in the country. Within a matter of minutes Thursday, dozens of the company's employees and much of the materials for its current projects were lost when ...
National Jul 20, 2019
Most victims of Kyoto inferno suffocated in stairwell leading to roof; no sprinklers installed
Most of the “KyoAni” employees are thought to have died from carbon monoxide poisoning, and police say the studio was accused of “stealing a novel.”
National Jul 18, 2019
An arson attack at a well-known animation studio in Kyoto that left at least 33 people dead Thursday stunned fans of anime both at home and abroad. Expressions of sympathy and prayers poured in from fans of works produced by Kyoto Animation Co., also known ...
World / Crime & Legal Apr 4, 2019
'White power' graffiti defaces historic Tennessee civil rights site that was victim of fire
Racist graffiti was painted in the parking lot of a Tennessee social justice center that hosted giants of the 1960s U.S. civil rights movement, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks, it said on Tuesday. The Highlander Research and Education Center, whose main ...
National Dec 15, 2018
China calls on Japan to protect rights of arrested protesters from Hong Kong after Yasukuni fire
China has called on Japan to ensure the legal rights of two activists from Hong Kong who were arrested after staging a protest at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Wednesday. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a news briefing in Beijing that China has taken ...