Tag: Aum subway gassing

Japan victims voice fears 30 years after sarin subway attack

Published March 18, 2025 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Aum Shinrikyo, Aum subway gassing, Japan, Tokyo, victims

Three decades since Shizue Takahashi's husband and a dozen others were killed with a nerve agent on Tokyo's subway, she fears Japan could see a repeat of the doomsday cult attack. Takahashi, whose husband worked for the metro system, told…[Continue Reading...]

Court orders government to hand cult founder’s remains to daughter

Published March 13, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Aum Shinrikyo, Aum subway gassing, Japan, Shoko Asahara

A court ordered the government on Wednesday to hand over the hair and cremated remains of the executed Aum Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara to his second daughter after a top court ruled in 2021 that she can take them…[Continue Reading...]

Looking back on the deadliest cult disasters

Published July 18, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Aum subway gassing, cult deaths, cult murder suicides, doomsday cults, Jonestown, Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, Solar Temple, Waco Davidians

914 dead, Guyana jungle apocalypse In one of the most dramatic mass murder-suicides of modern history, 914 adults and children from a US cult died in the jungle of the small South American country of Guyana on November 18, 1978.…[Continue Reading...]