A U.S. toxicologist researching incidents involving the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo met one of its former senior members on death row on Thursday to discuss the recent murder of Kim Jong Nam, the North Korean leader's half-brother, by VX, a deadly nerve agent. Anthony Tu, ...
A ceremony at Kasumigaseki Station was held Monday to mourn the victims of the deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system 22 years ago that left 13 people dead and over 6,000 injured. At 8 a.m., 21 officials from Tokyo Metro Co. offered ...
Widely regarded as a safe place to live, Japan currently sits in ninth position on the Global Peace Index's list of the most peaceful nations on the planet. The East Asian nation is generally believed to be an orderly society that has incredibly low ...
A man who survived a VX attack by Aum Shinrikyo in Tokyo details the assault and his reaction to news footage of Kim Jong Nam’s assassination in Malaysia.
The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced a former Aum Shinrikyo fugitive to life in prison for his role in the doomsday cult's 1995 sarin attacks on the Tokyo subway system that killed 13 people and sickened thousands. Katsuya ...
A successor group to the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult that killed 13 Tokyo commuters and poisoned many others with sarin gas in 1995 has set up a new operating base in Hokkaido, intelligence officials said Thursday. The Public Security Intelligence Agency inspected the facility of ...
Lawmakers in the Diet approved reform to the country's criminal justice system last month, mandating the recording of police interrogations in certain circumstances, revamping the existing wiretap law and introducing a plea bargain system for the first time. While it's hard to imagine the reform ...
Subway workers mark the 21st anniversary of the Aum Shinrikyo cult’s 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo metro, but kin of the deceased are still angry with the perpetrators.
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a former senior member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, in a move that will finalize a nine-year prison sentence for his involvement in three criminal incidents. In a decision dated Wednesday, the top court's third petty bench ...
Today the saga of Aum Shinrikyo — a doomsday cult that killed 13 Tokyo commuters and poisoned many others with sarin gas in 1995 — seems like something out of a bad manga. What could have possessed so many well-educated middle-class people, to follow ...
Prosecutors appeal a ruling that found a female former member of Aum Shinrikyo and ex-fugitive not guilty of a 1995 parcel bombing.
The Tokyo High Court acquits former Aum Shinrikyo cult member Naoko Kikuchi of attempted murder in a 1995 bomb attack.
