Thirty years after the Aum Supreme Truth cult’s deadly attacks, victims’ families are calling for urgent government intervention as compensation payments from its successor group remain stalled. Marking the 30th anniversary of Aum’s 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo…[Continue Reading...]
This is the second installment of a series that examines the scars left by the Aum Supreme Truth cult’s chemical attack on the Tokyo subway system on March 20, 1995, and explores the lessons learned from that tragedy. Shozo Jin…[Continue Reading...]
We cannot forget the day in 1995 when a terrorist attack in the nation’s capital abruptly and tragically shattered so many lives. March 20 marks the 30th anniversary of the sarin nerve gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.…[Continue Reading...]
Tokyo -- Japan on Thursday marked the 30th anniversary of the nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, with the relatives of the victims striving to keep alive the memory of the worst…[Continue Reading...]
The son of a victim in an abduction case involving the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult wants perpetrators to continue feeling remorse 30 years on. "There are two kinds of atonement," said Minoru Kariya, 65, whose father, Kiyoshi, then 68, was…[Continue Reading...]
Dateline Rancho Santa Fe. March 26, 1997. A 911 call came into the San Diego Sheriff’s Communications Center. It was treated as a prank call at first. From what turned out to be a nearby payphone, the caller said something…[Continue Reading...]
oday marks 25 years since the gruesome Kanungu cult massacre in Uganda that claimed the lives of more than 700 people. The incident marks the darkest chapter in the history of the East African country whose past is full of…[Continue Reading...]
On the morning of Monday, March 20, 1995, publishing house employee Junichi Sugiyama had planned to head to Tsukiji, a Tokyo district served by the Hibiya Line subway station of the same name. He had a meeting with a major…[Continue Reading...]
Only seven years into her marriage did Yuki Niimi first touch her husband -- at a morgue where she collected his body after he was executed and kissed him in a coffin. Before that a glass screen had always separated…[Continue Reading...]
At the time, Yamada was deputy chief of the division. Kamikuishiki was later merged with neighboring municipalities. Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, would be executed at age 63. Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer Tatsuhiro Ishizawa spoke with Yamada, 84,…[Continue Reading...]
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