The Unification Church has come under intense scrutiny in Japan since a former prime minister was assassinated, but it could soon fall even further from grace. Authorities said in October 2023 they were seeking to dissolve the influential sect, founded…[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...]
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...]
Aum Supreme Truth’s main successor transferred financial assets in an apparent attempt to conceal them, according to a Public Security Intelligence Agency investigation report seen by The Yomiuri Shimbun. The cult’s successor, which is called Aleph, used such means as…[Continue Reading...]
Shuichi Kojima, a lawyer at Yokohama Law Office in Yokohama, was the colleague of Tsutsumi Sakamoto, 33, who was murdered along with his family in November 1989 by senior members of the Aum Supreme Truth cult. After Sakamoto and his…[Continue Reading...]
The Supreme Court upheld a ruling against the Unification Church and pushed the scandal-ridden religious organization closer toward dissolution. In a decision dated March 3, the Supreme Court ruled that the church, now officially called the Family Federation for World…[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...]
TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 23-year-old man who is suspected of carrying out a pyramid scheme that swindled more than 100 persons, reports Fuji News Network (Jan. 31). On Friday, Hiroaki Tonoya, with blonde hair and…[Continue Reading...]
The Public Security Intelligence Agency made a request Monday that regulatory action be extended against Aleph, a group linked to the Aum Supreme Truth cult, over it failing to report some of its activities. The agency made the request to…[Continue Reading...]
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