A DOOMSDAY cult behind a deadly chemical attack is recruiting a new generation of followers – with fears of “indiscriminate mass murder”. Aum Shinrikyo released nerve gas on the Tokyo subway in 1995 – in the country’s most catastrophic attack…[Continue Reading...]
It teaches you how people can buy into a total con hook, line and sinker, not only despite its transparent fraudulence but seemingly because of it. It teaches you how otherwise sensible people can go off the deep end to…[Continue Reading...]
The Public Security Examination Commission has decided to extend restrictions on the activities of Aleph, a successor group of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, for another six months. The decision, made Wednesday, marks the sixth time the recurrence prevention…[Continue Reading...]
The Public Security Examination Commission on Wednesday handed down a sixth regulatory action against Aleph, the primary successor organization of the Aum Supreme Truth cult, based on the Law on the Control of Organizations Which Committed Indiscriminate Mass Murder. The…[Continue Reading...]
Japanese authorities have warned that the son of a cult leader behind the deadly sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo's subway network in 1995 is now the leader of a successor group. The cult, Aum Shinrikyo was disbanded and its…[Continue Reading...]
The widow of a man killed when followers of the Aum Shinrikyo cult released sarin gas on the Tokyo subway system in 1995 has warned that a son of the founder of the apocalyptic religious group intends to resurrect its…[Continue Reading...]
The Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA) has identified the second son of Shoko Asahara — the founder of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo cult — as the de facto head of Aleph, the group regarded as Aum’s successor, it announced Tuesday.…[Continue Reading...]
Saitama – Police in Saitama Prefecture have found tens of millions of yen in cash at the home of the wife of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder Chizuo Matsumoto, who went by the name Shoko Asahara, informed sources…[Continue Reading...]
A 97-year-old man from central Japan has donated about 1,400 photos taken during his years of confronting the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult. The former village of Kamikuishiki, currently the town of Fujikawaguchiko in Yamanashi Prefecture, was once home to…[Continue Reading...]
Almost a month after the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult unleashed a devastating nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway system on March 20, 1995, dozens of abused, famished children were rescued from its compound in Yamanashi Prefecture. The deadliest terrorist attack…[Continue Reading...]
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