The Kyoto District Public Prosecutors Office has decided to indict a 21-year-old member of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) for fatally stabbing an 82-year-old man on the staircase of his apartment building in Kyoto in December. Prosecutors made the decision Friday to indict Yukito Mizushima after three months of psychiatric…
Prosecutors have told relatives of victims killed in the 2019 arson attack of Japanese anime studio Kyoto Animation Co. that they want the suspect's trial to begin between September and December, according to an investigative source
Prosecutors have told relatives of victims killed in the 2019 arson attack of Japanese anime studio Kyoto Animation Co that they want the suspect's trial to begin between September and December, an investigative source said Thursday. A specific date has not been set for the trial of Shinji Aoba, 44,…
KYOTO Bereaved family members marked the ninth anniversary on Dec. 19 of the killing of the businessman known as the “Gyoza King,” who was gunned down here, asking for answers and for the culprit to be punished.