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. The trial for the country’s ...

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.

The fire marked the worst mass killing in Japan since a 2001 arson attack on a building in Tokyo’s Kabukicho district, which killed 44 people. The death toll also surpassed the infamous Tokyo ...

The family was supposed to head back to the United States on October 23, but the young man’s travel plans have now been altered, as on the day of his scheduled departure he was arrested by the Tokyo ...

An 18-year-old American tourist was arrested in Tokyo on Tuesday over alleged arson in the capital, with police investigating a further six incidents as well. The man, who has been visiting Japan ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. The FBI defines arson as “any willful or malicious burning or attempting to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling ...