The family of a former Aum Shinrikyo cult member plans to file for a retrial after he was executed in July for his role in the deadly 1995 Tokyo subway nerve gas attack and other crimes committed by the group, a source with knowledge ...
Ex-Aum member Yoshihiro Inoue's last words: 'I didn't expect things to turn out this way'
A former senior member of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult that perpetrated the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 said just moments before his execution last week that he did not foresee such an ending, but remained calm and thanked his parents, an ...
Death-row cultist puts Hirata in kidnap frame
A condemned Aum Shinrikyo killer testifies that fellow cultist Makoto Hirata was fully aware he wa s going to help in the 1995 abduction of a Tokyo notary.
