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...]
THE STORY – In 1984, Shoko Asahara started a seemingly innocuous yoga school based in Tokyo. By 1995, the group had evolved into a doomsday cult called Aum Shinrikyo, meaning “Supreme Truth,” whose weapon of choice was sarin, an extraordinarily toxic…[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...]
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...]
Tokyo, Feb. 21 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Public Security Intelligence Agency launched a special website Friday to prevent public memory of the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult from fading. The agency…[Continue Reading...]
A bureau chief who oversaw police investigations into Aum Shinrikyo said he feels responsible for the “indecision” on a crackdown that allowed the cult to commit its deadly gas attack in Tokyo in 1995. According to Takashi Kakimi, who was…[Continue Reading...]
No matter what you call them, extremist religious groups led by charismatic gurus are rarely to be trusted. Japan learned that lesson the hard way on Mar. 20, 1995, when a sarin gas attack on Tokyo’s subway system left 13…[Continue Reading...]
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