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Kyoto Animation Co. President Hideaki Hatta (L) meets the press on July 18, 2023, after attending a memorial ceremony at the site of an arson attack four years earlier on an animation
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Hideaki Hatta, a president of Kyoto Animation, heads for a venue of a memorial service where former Kyoto Animation Studio 1 site stood in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture on July 18, 2023,
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