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...]
Minoru Kariya, 65, revealed his father’s fears about the Aum Supreme Truth cult. His father Kiyoshi, then 68, the chief clerk of the Meguro Notary Office, was abducted by the cult’s followers in February 1995 and died after being given…[Continue Reading...]
As the 30th anniversary of the worst indiscriminate terrorist attack in Japan's history approaches, efforts to ensure the incident and the lessons learned from it will not fade from memory have picked up. On March 20, 1995, members of the…[Continue Reading...]
TOKYO -- About 60% of victims in the March 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system had the persisting condition of their "eyes getting tired easily" as of 2023, according to a nonprofit group's survey. It is…[Continue Reading...]
A nonprofit group helping victims of the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult plans to disband at the end of March. The Tokyo-based Recovery Support Center, which conducts mass health…[Continue Reading...]
The chilling legacy of doomsday cult-turned-domestic terrorists Aum Shinrikyo is now being captured on the 30th anniversary of their Tokyo attack. Documentary “AUM: The Cult at the End of the World,” co-directed by Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto, tells the…[Continue Reading...]
Season 1 episode 9 of How I Escaped My Cult on Hulu titled The House of Yahweh focuses on the crimes committed by Yedidiyah Hawkins. Hawkins was an elder of the religious sect, who molested a 11-year-old girl, by pretending…[Continue Reading...]
The Japanese government has opened a new website on the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult responsible for the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack nearly 30 years ago, featuring testimonies from victims' families and photos of the group's guru as part of…[Continue Reading...]
On a sweltering afternoon late last year, I sat in an ice-cream parlour in Suva, the capital of the remote Pacific nation of Fiji, and ate a croissant waffle topped with vanilla ice cream, chopped peanuts and honey. Despite the parlour’s unpromising…[Continue Reading...]
On October 5, 1994, in two sleepy villages in the Swiss mountains, a series of horrific discoveries were made. What at first appeared to be unconnected fires at a farm house in the hamlet of Cheiry and at ski chalets…[Continue Reading...]
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