Police arrested a 27-year-old firefighter on suspicion of setting a warehouse in Hino, Tokyo, on fire early Saturday, the police said.

TOKYO — The suspect in a 2019 arson attack at an animation studio in Japan pleaded guilty Tuesday on the first day of his trial to the murder of 36 people.

At least 12 cases of arson involving small trucks, motorbikes, bicycles and vacant houses have been reported in Tokyo's Kita and Adachi wards since Friday. Police said Sunday that six fires were ...

In 2001, an intentionally set blaze in Tokyo's Kabukicho entertainment district killed 44 people — the country's worst known case of arson in modern times. Japan Facebook ...

The fire was Japan's deadliest since 2001, when a blaze in Tokyo's congested Kabukicho entertainment district killed 44 people, and it was the country's worst known case of arson in modern times ...

Tokyo CNN — Police in Japan are investigating why a man torched a renowned animation studio in Kyoto, leaving 33 people dead in the country’s worst mass killing in almost 20 years.

“If it was arson, it could happen anywhere, any time,” he said. “That makes me worried.” The Japanese police reported 786 cases of arson in 2020, about half as many as a decade earlier.

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At least 33 people have died in a suspected arson attack at a renowned animation studio in the Japanese city of Kyoto on Thursday, according to police.