Smoke spread so fast through the Japanese animation company hit by an arson attack last week that a majority of victims who had tried to flee through a rooftop door were unable to open it before perishing, Japanese media said on Monday.

The man suspected of killing 34 people in an arson attack in Japan lived alone, hundreds of kilometers from the torched Kyoto Animation studio, where he played video games non-stop and "terrified" his neighbor just days earlier.

With the police and the public searching for explanations of a devastating crime, experts said they feared people with mental illness would be vilified.

The man suspected of a deadly arson attack in Kyoto may have visited the site before, reports say.

Most of the victims of an arson attack on an animation studio in western Japanese city of Kyoto were in their 20s and 30s, public broadcaster NHK said on Saturday, as the death told climbed to 34.

Witness accounts and reports suggested the man had a grudge against Kyoto Animation

Kyoto Animation, the company hit by a suspected arson on Thursday that killed 33 people and injured 36 others also has a unique founding history.

TOKYO (AP) — Police were investigating Friday the gutted animation studio building in Kyoto where a man raging about theft set a fire that killed 33 people, crushing the hearts of comic fans in...

Tributes to the Japanese animation studio ravaged in a suspected arson attack lit up social media on Friday, with world leaders and Apple Inc's chief executive offering condolences to the families of the 33 people who were killed.

The Japanese studio was known for employing women, and they made up almost two-thirds of the 33 people killed in an apparent arson.

Shinji Aoba is suspected of deliberately starting the fire, and is in police custody at hospital.

Japanese police have identified the man suspected to have started a fire at an animation studio that killed 33 people as Shinji Aoba, public broadcaster NHK said on Friday.

The Kyoto Animation company building where 33 people were killed in an arson attack did not have any sprinklers or indoor hydrants installed since they were not legally required by the fire code, a Kyoto Fire Department official said on Friday.

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Japan’s tight-knit anime industry was in shock on Friday after the deaths of 33 of the “brightest and best young talents” in an arson attack the previous day, with the suspect allegedly telling police that he started the blaze because Kyoto …

Suspect named by police after attack on Kyoto animation studio that left 33 dead

Animation fans and Kyoto residents gathered at the site of Japan's worst mass killing in 18 years on Friday, offering flowers and prayers for the 33 people who died in an arson attack on an animation studio in the city.

Police investigation under way following the deadly anime studio blaze prompting an outpouring of grief and support.

A man suspected of torching an animation studio in western Japan shouted that he had been plagiarized and appeared to have planned the attack, media said on Friday after a blaze that killed 33 people in Japan's worst mass killing in two decades.

TOKYO (AP) — A man screaming "You die!" burst into an animation studio in Kyoto, doused it with a flammable liquid and set it on fire Thursday, killing 33 people in an attack that shocked the...

New details are coming in from Japan, where a man set fire to a famous animation studio in Kyoto. At least 33 people were killed, and 36 were hurt. Ramy Inocencio reports.

Thirty-three people have died in a fire at Kyoto Animation. Here are some of the studio’s most influential works.

A fire broke out at Kyoto Animation's studio in Japan on Thursday morning, killing 33 people and leaving 36 people injured. Apple CEO Tim Cook called the suspected arson attack "devastating" and "a tragedy felt far beyond Japan" in a tweet on Thursday. Prime …

The animation industry grieves after an alleged arson attack on the famed Kyoto Animation studio.

An arson attack on popular anime studio KyoAni has killed 33 people.

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RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

if you give an infinite amount of monkeys an infinite amount of money and set them in front of an infinite amount of lightboxes. and then name the company they work for "kyoto animation". will those monkeys eventually create a genuine work of earnest art

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…

RT @UnseenJapanSite: News Zero interviewed the husband of Kyoto Animation character designer Ikeda Shoko (Sound! Euphonium), who was killed…