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1. A Japanese court sentences the perpetrator, Shinji Aoba, to death for the 2019 attack on an animation studio that claimed the lives of 36 people.
   2024-01-25 09:12:53 (First version)
2. A court in Japan sentences Shinji Aoba to death for a 2019 arson attack on a Kyoto Animation studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, which killed 36 people.
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