A Japanese court is set to sentence Shinji Aoba, the man responsible for a 2019 arson attack at a Kyoto Animation Co. studio that killed 36 people in one of Japan's worst-ever mass murders.
A man admits to carrying out a 2019 arson attack that killed 36 people at the Japanese anime studio Kyoto Animation, but his defense team called for his acquittal on the grounds that he was not mentally competent at the time.