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 ...

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 ...

The Tokyo District Court Tachikawa Branch sentenced the defendant, unemployed Kyota Hattori, 26, to the prison term for attempted murder and arson of a Keio Line train running in the western ...

TOKYO (AP) — One person died and two others ... been a number of high-profile cases involving random knife attacks and arson on subways.

TOKYO: A Japanese man sentenced to death for an arson attack that killed 36 people at an anime studio has dropped his appeal ...