Death sentence sought for suspect in 2019 Kyoto animation arson attack

TOKYO, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Japanese prosecutors on Thursday requested death penalty for the male suspect indicted on charges including murder for the deadly 2019 arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio.

At the trial held at the Kyoto District Court, 45-year-old Shinji Aoba from Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, was charged with murder and arson over dousing the No. 1 studio of the animation powerhouse, als