Posted on 04 April 2015. Tags: after, attack, daughter, Founder’s, sarin, speaks, Tokyo, Years
Aum Founder’s Daughter Speaks 20 Years After Tokyo Sarin Attack TOKYO—Rika Matsumoto remembers sitting on her father’s lap and playing with his beard when she was a little girl. He was a “warm, big man,” she says. Her baby sitters, disciples of her father, took good care of her, too, she says. Twenty years ago […]
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Posted on 22 March 2015. Tags: assault, attack, cult’s, Deadly, Doomsday, Recalling, sarin, Tokyo
Tokyo sarin attack: Recalling doomsday cult’s deadly assault In March 1995, the world’s busiest subway system was brought to a standstill as a mysterious gas was released across the Tokyo underground. Commuters in the Japanese capital began to feel short of breath and experienced dim vision. A dozen people died … Full News here – Read […]
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Posted on 23 January 2014. Tags: attack, Begins, Cult, Japan, member, sarin, Tokyo, trial
Japan trial of Tokyo sarin attack cult member begins The trial of a former member of Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo cult has begun, nearly 20 years after the group carried out a deadly sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Makoto Hirata is being tried over the abduction and death of a 68-year-old man, notary Kiyoshi Kariya. Full […]
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