{"id":4912,"date":"2019-07-29T12:21:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T03:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/29\/kyoto-animation-suspect-staked-out-anime-locations-before-attack"},"modified":"2019-07-29T12:21:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T03:21:51","slug":"kyoto-animation-suspect-staked-out-anime-locations-before-arson-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4912","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto Animation suspect staked out anime locations before arson attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the death toll rises to 35, police say Shinji Aoba was caught on camera visiting sites in the city of Uji<\/p>\n<p>The suspect in the Kyoto Animation arson attack visited locations featured in one of the company\u2019s anime series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/18\/dead-suspected-arson-attack-kyoto-animation-japan\">in the days before the attack<\/a>, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Security cameras caught Shinji Aoba, 41, near sites that appear in Kyoto Animation\u2019s Sound! Euphonium, a TV series about a high school music club, set in Uji, the city south of Kyoto in which the company\u2019s headquarters are located.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/29\/kyoto-animation-suspect-staked-out-anime-locations-before-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the death toll rises to 35, police say Shinji Aoba was caught on camera visiting sites in the city of UjiThe suspect in the Kyoto Animation arson attack visited locations featured in one of the company\u2019s anime series in the days before the attack, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[367,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4913,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions\/4913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}