{"id":60410,"date":"2023-12-07T15:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T06:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/07\/kyoto-animation-fire-japan-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-over-blaze-that-killed-36"},"modified":"2023-12-07T15:48:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T06:48:02","slug":"kyoto-animation-fire-japan-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-over-blaze-that-killed-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60410","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto Animation fire: Japan prosecutors seek death penalty over blaze that killed 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shinji Aoba has admitted starting fire but has pleaded not guilty, saying a psychological disorder makes him incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> are seeking the death penalty for the suspect in an arson attack in 2019 that killed 36 people in one of the country\u2019s deadliest crimes for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Shinji Aoba, who was not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/27\/kyoto-animation-arson-suspect-arrested-shinji-aoba-burns\">arrested<\/a> until he had recovered from the burns he sustained in the attack on an animation studio in Kyoto, admitted in court in September 2023 to starting the fire.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/07\/kyoto-animation-fire-japan-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-over-blaze-that-killed-36\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shinji Aoba has admitted starting fire but has pleaded not guilty, saying a psychological disorder makes him incapable of distinguishing between right and wrongProsecutors in Japan are seeking the death penalty for the suspect in an arson attack in 201&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60410","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60411,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60410\/revisions\/60411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}