Suspected arsonist of Japan animation studio was a reclusive, quarrelsome gamer, says neighbour

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Suspected arsonist of Japan animation studio was a reclusive, quarrelsome gamer, says neighbour
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OMIYA, Japan (REUTERS) - The man suspected of killing 34 people in an arson attack in Japan lived alone, hundreds of kilometres from the torched Kyoto Animation studio, where he played video games non-stop and had 'terrified' his neighbour just days earlier.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

OMIYA, Japan - The man suspected of killing 34 people in an arson attack in Japan lived alone, hundreds of kilometres from the torched Kyoto Animation studio, where he played video games non-stop and had"terrified" his neighbour just days earlier.

"I've never seen him go out during the day, not even to the convenience store. I would regularly hear him go out around midnight," the neighbour, a 27-year-old man who declined to be identified, told Reuters. When the neighbour went to Aoba's front door to tell him the noise was coming from another unit, he heard a loud wail inside the apartment and then the door opened.

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