The Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency on Friday inspected locations linked with Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a splinter group of Aum Shinrikyo.

Some 70 officials from the agency inspected the group's biggest facility in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward and also locations in Miyagi, Chiba, Kanagawa, Nagano, Aichi, Osaka and Fukuoka prefectures.