A ruling will be handed down on Thursday for Shinji Aoba, 45, who is facing a possible death penalty over one of Japan’s worst-ever mass-murder cases.
Thirty-six people were killed after Aoba set fire to a Kyoto Animation studio in July 2019, believing the firm stole his story idea.
The focus of the trial is on whether he is mentally competent enough to be held criminally liable.
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