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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 27 March 2015. Tags: Cult, daughter, Doomsday, Japan’s, Leader, memoir, speaks

Daughter of Japan’s doomsday cult leader speaks out in memoir On March 20, 1995, cult members punctured plastic bags containing sarin nerve gas on three Tokyo subway lines during morning rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 6,300. Of the 299 survivors of the attack, more than half said Asahara and 12 others, … Full News […]

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