The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.---------- Kyoto anime arsonist's death penalty finalized as appeal droppedOSAKA - A man charged with the 2019 fatal arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio has dropped his appeal to overturn his death sentence, a Japanese high court said Tuesday, finalizing the verdict over one of Japan's worst mass-murders.Shinji Aoba, 46, was sentenced to death by the Kyoto District Court in January 2024 for the attack that killed 36 people at the internationally famous animation production studio, after the court found him m…READ FULL ARTICLE