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961:(constricted pupils), and numbness in their hands. Some victims described having seen a fog with a pungent and irritating smell floating by. A total of 274 people were treated. Five dead residents were discovered in their apartments, and two died in hospital immediately after admission. An eighth victim, Sumiko Kono, remained in a
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On June 21, 1995, Asahara acknowledged that in
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started attracting controversy in the late-1980s with accusations of deception of recruits, holding cult members against their will, forcing members to donate money and murdering a cult member who tried to leave in
February 1989. Kaplan and Marshall alleged in their book that Aum was also connected
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Advertising and recruitment activities, dubbed the "Aum
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on July 6, 2018, along with six other cult members. Relatives of victims said they approved the execution. Asahara's final words, as reported by officials, assigned his remains to his fourth daughter, who was unsympathetic to the cult and stated she planned to dispose of the ashes at sea; this was
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system, killing 13 commuters, seriously injuring 54 and affecting 980 more. Some estimates claim as many as 6,000 people were injured by the sarin. It is difficult to obtain exact numbers since many victims are reluctant to come forward. Prosecutors allege that
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against
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was referenced "depicting as it does an elite group of spiritually evolved scientists forced to go underground during an age of barbarism so as to prepare themselves for the moment...when they will emerge to rebuild civilization". It has been posited that Aum's publications used
Christian and
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in 1999, was murdered in 2002. At 11:50 p.m. on
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to release a cloud of sarin which floated near the home of the judges. The truck's cargo space held "a heating contraption that had been specifically designed to turn" twelve litres of liquid sarin into an aerosol, and fans to diffuse the aerosol into the neighbourhood.
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and another Aum member, who sprinkled the nerve agent on his neck. He chased them for about 100 yards (91 m) before collapsing, dying ten days later without coming out of a deep coma. Doctors in the hospital suspected at the time he had been poisoned with an
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into the
Matsumoto courthouse was altered when the cult members arrived in the city after the courthouse had closed. They decided to instead target a three-story apartment building where the city's judges resided. At 10:40 pm, members of Aum used a converted
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During this time, numerous cult members were arrested for various offenses, but arrests of the most senior members on the charge of the subway gassing had not yet taken place. In June, an individual unrelated to Aum had launched a copycat attack by hijacking
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Police made plans to simultaneously raid cult facilities across Japan in March 1995. Prosecutors alleged
Asahara was tipped off about this and that he ordered the Tokyo subway attack to divert police. Meanwhile, Aum had also attempted to manufacture 1,000
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Matsumoto discovered a way to earn money by directing other kids to a candy store, and as he was the only student in the school still capable of having some vision, this led to him becoming somewhat well-liked. However, Matsumoto was also known to be a
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about planned police raids on cult facilities and ordered an attack in central Tokyo to divert police attention away from the group. The attack evidently backfired, and police conducted huge simultaneous raids on cult compounds across the country.
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device which, had it not been extinguished in time, would have released enough gas into the ventilation system to potentially kill 10,000 commuters. On July 4, several undetonated cyanide devices were found at other locations in the Tokyo subway.
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to such an extent that he could lift himself with his mind. He promoted this achievement with pamphlets produced by his own publishing company, but outside a few Japanese periodicals with an occult subject, little publicity was achieved.
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Matsumoto's interest in religion reportedly started at this time. Having been recently married, he worked to support his large and growing family. He dedicated his free time to the study of various religious concepts, starting with
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was reported, those claims now appear to have been widely exaggerated. There were stockpiles of chemicals that could be used for producing enough sarin to kill four million people. On March 30, 1995, Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the
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contested by Asahara's wife, third daughter, and other family members, who were suspected of wanting to enshrine the ashes where believers can honor them. Until 2024, the ashes were still at the Tokyo Detention House.
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At 11:30 pm, Matsumoto police received an urgent report from paramedics that casualties were being transported to hospital. The patients were suffering from darkened vision, eye pain, headaches, nausea, diarrhea,
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in 2004, and his final appeal failed in 2011. In June 2012, his execution was postponed due to further arrests of Aum members. He was ultimately executed along with other senior members of
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on September 15, 2006. Two re-trial appeals were declined by the appellate court. In June 2012, Asahara's execution was postponed due to arrests of several fugitive Aum Shinrikyo members.
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money from them. During his adolescence, Matsumoto developed a fantasy about ruling a kingdom of robots with total power and confided in his schoolmates about his aspiration to rule
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epidemic failed. The attack resulted in a large number of complaints about bad odors but no infections. At the end of 1993, the cult started secretly manufacturing the nerve agent
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later distanced himself from Asahara and said that he had met "a strange Japanese man", but denied having any significant relationship with him. Asahara returned permanently to
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began satirizing the cult, he was included on Aum's assassination list. An assassination attempt was made on Kobayashi in 1993. In 1991, Aum began to use wiretapping to get
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771:. Religious practices often involved extremely ascetic practices claimed to be "yoga". These included everything from renunciants being hung upside down to being given
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of Aum Shinrikyo synthesized 100 to 200 grams of VX which was used to attack three people. On December 2, Noboru Mizuno was attacked with syringes containing
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had two goals; to attack three judges who were expected to rule against the cult in a lawsuit concerning a real estate dispute, and to test the efficacy of its
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themes, including space missions, powerful weapons, world conspiracies, and the quest for ultimate truth. Aum published several magazines including
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efforts. However, the network secretly showed a video of the interview to Aum members without Sakamoto's knowledge, intentionally breaking its
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Buddhist ideas to impress what he considered to be the more shrewd and educated Japanese who were not attracted to boring, purely traditional
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from birth, which made him lose all sight in his left eye and go partially blind in his right eye at a young age, and was thus enrolled in a
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in 1989 and attracted a considerable number of graduates from Japan's elite universities, thus being dubbed a "religion for the elite".
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Asahara was maintaining his silence out of free will. Owing to his lawyers' failure to submit the statement of reason for appeal, the
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2432:"The use of VX as a terrorist agent: action by Aum Shinrikyo of Japan and the death of Kim Jong-Nam in Malaysia: four case studies"
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and mass-produce the AK-74. Police seized AK-74 components and blueprints from a vehicle used by an Aum member on April 6, 1995.
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kept the showing of the video secret until March 25, 1996. This led to strong criticism that it contributed to the murder.
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when he was 6-years-old due to being unable to follow on the family trade; he never lived with his family again.
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spores from a cooling tower on the roof of Aum Shinrikyo's Tokyo headquarters. However, their plan to cause an
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Kristof, Nicholas D. (March 14, 1996). "Japan Sect's Role in Murder Case Emerges, Prompting Outcry".
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for fourteen years and died in 2008. The fatalities also included Yutaka Kobayashi, a 23-year-old
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pesticide. But the cause of death was pinned down only after cult members were arrested for the
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decided on March 27, 2006, not to grant them leave to appeal. This decision was upheld by the
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ordered Asahara's remains to be released to his second daughter, which was affirmed by the
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3130:"Shoko Asahara: Japan doomsday cult leader executed 23 years after Tokyo sarin attack"
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of several individuals critical of the cult, such as the heads of Buddhist sects
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at the school, taking advantage of the other students by beating them and
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Wijers-Hasegawa, Yumi (March 14, 2003). "Asahara maintains his silence".
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and steadily grew in the following years. It gained official status as a
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Berson, Tom (September 22, 1997). "Are We Ready for Chemical Warfare?".
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Supreme Initiation: An Empirical Spiritual Science for the Supreme Truth
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Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons
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Ataxia: The Chemical and Biological Terrorism Threat and the US Response
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United States State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations
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In July 1993, cult members sprayed large amounts of liquid containing
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Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime
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2695:"IV. The Operation of the Aum – A Case Study on the Aum Shinrikyo"
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At the end of 1994, the cult broke into the Hiroshima factory of
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3309:"Japan Executes Cult Leader Behind 1995 Sarin Gas Subway Attack"
3157:"Japan executes cult leader behind 1995 Tokyo subway gas attack"
2376:"Bacillus anthracis Bioterrorism Incident, Kameido, Tokyo, 1993"
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Wolves Within the Fold: Religious Leadership and Abuses of Power
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Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups
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Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
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Voices of Trauma: Treating Psychological Trauma Across Cultures
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Zurer, Pamela (1998). "Japanese cult used VX to slay member".
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a documentary film about Asahara made in 1998 by Tatsuya Mori
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2545:"El agente VX: un veneno diez veces más potente que el sarín"
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Murakami, Haruki; Birnbaum, Alfred; Gabriel, Philip (2001).
3335:"Japan's doomsday cult leader behind gas attack is executed"
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Yomiuri Shimbun, "Cultists killed baby first, police say",
1405:"Japanese Aum Shinrikyo Cult Leader Shoko Asahara Executed"
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Wudunn, Nicholas D. Kristof With Sheryl (March 26, 1995).
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Yomiuri Shimbun, "Asahara 'justified' murder of infant",
1459:"Aum Shinrikyo: Japan executes cult leader Shoko Asahara"
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uniforms/equipment and created a manual for wiretapping.
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Hongo, Jun; Wijers-Hasegawa, Yumi (September 16, 2006).
2940:"Aum Shinrikyo cult fugitive surrenders to Japan police"
2659:"Cultist says Asahara ordered 1,000 machineguns be made"
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is suspected of the crime, but nobody has been charged.
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Tokyo subway gas attack, arrests, and further incidents
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Starting in 1984, Asahara made several pilgrimages to
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2853:"Here's a chronology of poison gas attacks in Japan"
2109:"Scholarship, Aum Shinrikyô, and Academic Integrity"
1814:"Shoko Asahara: From poor upbringing to cult leader"
1573:"Japanese Guru – A Youthful Bully's Quest for Power"
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2568:"Skin on Fire: A Firsthand Account of a VX Attack"
2519:"The Asahara Trial: Aum member explains VX attack"
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3551:(1st ed.). New York: Vintage International.
1883:Lewis, James R.; Jesper Aagaard Petersen (2005).
1720:Lewis, James R.; Jesper Aagaard Petersen (2005).
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2621:"Chronology: Events involving Aum Shinrikyo".
2093:"Ex-TBS affiliate staff showed video to Aum",
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3522:"Aum Shinrikyo: Society Begets an Aberration"
3005:Ronczkowski, Michael R. (September 1, 2017).
2829:. Japan Today. March 20, 2008. Archived from
2367:
2057:"Asahara rearrested in 1989 cultist murder".
1873:
987:The Institute for Research in Human Happiness
702:Although Aum was considered controversial in
421:. He was convicted of masterminding the 1995
413:, was the founder and leader of the Japanese
3153:
3096:"Death sentence for Tokyo gas attack leader"
2042:"Aum member tells of 2 deaths at compound".
1630:"Hard Legacy for Japan Sect Leader's Family"
1423:
861:"), so he slept in with his family at home.
3004:
2914:"Hijacker Used Clay, Water as Fake Weapons"
2875:. United Press International. July 4, 1995.
2473:
2471:
2469:
2467:
2436:Global Security: Health, Science and Policy
2027:Kaplan, David E.; Marshall, Andrew (1996).
1919:
1434:"Execution of Aum founder likely postponed"
729:, adopting a somewhat missionary attitude.
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3627:
3520:Kiyoyasu, Kitabatake (September 1, 1995).
3154:Lewis, Leo; Inagaki, Kana (July 5, 2018).
2425:
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2018:
1956:"What is the origin of the name al-Qaida?"
1494:"Key events related to Aum Shinrikyo cult"
1148:military helicopter. While the finding of
480:He graduated in 1973 and applied to study
357:Party dissolved after the execution of Asa
31:
4010:Members of the clergy convicted of murder
2962:"Tokyo subway attack fugitive surrenders"
2873:"Four injured by Tokyo station gas fumes"
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2194:"Japanese police: Bodies are Sakamotos",
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3061:Wijers-Hasegawa, Yumi (April 25, 2003).
2464:
2244:"Aum Shinrikyo: Once and Future Threat?"
2209:"Japan TV network fights ethics charges"
2073:"Japan TV network fights ethics charges"
2050:
1998:
1996:
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1120:Aum Shinrikyo facility in Kamikuisshiki.
1115:
1058:in March 1995 confessed to the killing.
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920:, Nagano. When carrying out the attack,
3332:
2987:16-year Aum fugitive mum on life on run
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2139:
2046:. Tokyo. September 24, 1995. p. 1.
2015:
1690:
1654:Drozdek, Boris; John P. Wilson (2007).
1604:
1444:from the original on February 23, 2014.
1295:Asahara was executed by hanging at the
952:Depiction of Aum Shinrikyo sarin truck.
825:, chief scientist, Satoro Hashimoto, a
326:August 16, 1989 – July 6, 2018
220:August 25, 1989 – May 16, 1995
4040:Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators
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2886:Tucker, Jonathan B. (February 2000).
2770:from the original on December 4, 2013
2754:Smitheson, Amy E. (October 9, 2000).
2502:
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1993:
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977:The cult is known to have considered
262:June 20, 1994 – May 16, 1995
3598:about two documentary films on Aleph
3360:
2792:Terrorism: a very short introduction
2744:, July 2011; accessed July 12, 2018.
2566:Gale, Alastair (February 24, 2017).
2565:
2284:
1627:
1609:. Institute for Traditional Medicine
803:Tokyo Broadcasting System Television
423:sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
4020:People executed by Japan by hanging
4015:People convicted of murder by Japan
4000:Japanese people convicted of murder
3985:Founders of new religious movements
3273:Ryall, Julian (November 21, 2011).
2964:. News.com.au. AFP. January 1, 2012
2906:
2782:
2637:"Japan cultists sentenced to death"
2355:McNeill, David (January 26, 2015).
2296:"Matsumoto: Aum's sarin guinea pig"
1018:. Aum tested its sarin on sheep at
935:Aum's original plan to release the
697:
208:Supreme Leader of the Aum Shinrikyo
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3414:
3032:Ryall, Julian (January 16, 2014).
2741:Center for a New American Security
2429:
2005:"The Cult at the End of the World"
2002:
1966:from the original on April 5, 2010
1920:Macwilliams, Mary Wheeler (2008).
1524:
1380:List of people claimed to be Jesus
14:
4051:
3835:The Story of Kamikuishiki Village
3566:
3128:James Griffiths; Yoko Wakatsuki.
1486:
4025:People from Yatsushiro, Kumamoto
3980:Executed Japanese mass murderers
3950:21st-century executions by Japan
3502:Holy Terror: Armageddon in Tokyo
2345:, June 28, 2009, p. 2. (offline)
2029:The Cult at the End of The World
1693:Aum Shinrikyo and Japanese youth
1571:Holley, David (March 27, 1995).
1349:
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1022:, a remote pastoral property in
973:Additional incidents before 1995
761:The Cult at the End of the World
657:ward in 1987, starting off as a
606:
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3940:20th-century Japanese criminals
3658:Formerly known as Aum Shinrikyo
3384:
3366:"地下鉄サリン25年 オウムと麻原の「死」で日本は救われたか"
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1628:Sims, Calvin (September 2000).
1219:if he did not strangle Ochida.
392:, March 2, 1955 – July 6, 2018)
250:President of the Shinri Country
3333:Sturmer, Jake (July 6, 2018).
3307:Ramzy, Austin (July 5, 2018).
2711:, Vintage International, 2001.
2665:. July 8, 2000. Archived from
2294:Murphy, Paul (June 21, 2014).
2061:. October 21, 1995. p. 2.
1621:
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1397:
829:master, Tomomasa Nakagawa and
583:in 1987 and assumed the title
1:
3995:Japanese conspiracy theorists
2505:Chemical and Engineering News
2449:10.1080/23779497.2020.1801352
2337:Matsumoto gassings remembered
1390:
1213:
1204:All Nippon Airways Flight 857
1094:'s main infantry weapon, the
436:
3945:21st-century apocalypticists
3935:20th-century apocalypticists
3063:"Death demanded for Asahara"
2507:. Vol. 76, no. 35.
2380:Emerging Infectious Diseases
2248:Emerging Infectious Diseases
2158:(Tokyo), September 14, 1995.
1272:. The trial was called the "
757:Japanese Self-Defense Forces
647:, literally 'Supreme Truth')
494:traditional Chinese medicine
329:Interim: 1990 — July 6, 2018
314:Chairman of the Shinri Party
7:
3465:Beckford, James A. (1998).
2789:Townshend, Charles (2011).
2374:Takahashi, Hiroshi (2004).
2171:(Tokyo), September 4, 1995.
1985:Lifton, Robert Jay (2000).
1962:. London. August 24, 2002.
1887:Controversial New Religions
1724:Controversial New Religions
1697:University Press of America
1534:Atkins, Stephen E. (2004).
1375:List of executions in Japan
1365:Capital punishment in Japan
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1031:Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
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3795:Tokyo subway sarin attack
3594:November 28, 2005, at the
2892:. MIT Press. p. 219.
2196:United International Press
2107:Reader, Ian (April 2000).
1544:Greenwood Publishing Group
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2639:. BBC News. July 17, 2000
2095:Jiji Press Ticker Service
2031:. London, UK: Hutchinson.
1461:. BBC News. July 6, 2018.
1276:" by the Japanese media.
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849:Sakamoto from Yokohama's
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2572:Washington State Journal
1857:Rutgers University Press
1851:Shupe, Anson D. (1998).
890:1995 Tokyo subway attack
783:with such activities as
681:Immortal Mountain Wizard
633:, formerly Aum Shinrikyo
109:Cult leader, founder of
3779:Sakamoto family murder
3483:10.1525/nr.1998.1.2.305
3441:Asahara, Shoko (1993).
3421:Asahara, Shoko (1988).
2734:March 24, 2012, at the
2430:Tu, Anthony T. (2020).
2242:Olson, Kyle B. (1999).
2126:10.1525/nr.2000.3.2.368
2097:(Tokyo), 27 March 1996.
1893:Oxford University Press
1730:Oxford University Press
536:, and Asahara being an
4035:Self-declared messiahs
3825:Me and the Cult Leader
3614:BBC profile of Asahara
3245:The Japan Times Online
3067:The Japan Times Online
2995:, January 2011, pg. 1.
2392:10.3201/eid1001.030238
2260:10.3201/eid0504.990409
1989:. New York: Macmillan.
1818:The Japan Times Online
1605:Dharmananda, Subhuti.
1498:The Japan Times Online
1305:Supreme Court of Japan
1290:Supreme Court of Japan
1266:Sakamoto family murder
1249:
1166:National Police Agency
1126:binary chemical weapon
1121:
1056:subway attack in Tokyo
953:
908:Matsumoto sarin attack
902:Matsumoto sarin attack
797:Sakamoto family murder
791:Sakamoto family murder
692:religious organization
3990:Japanese blind people
3960:Antisemitism in Japan
3881:2019 Tokyo car attack
3209:. Kyodo. July 6, 2018
3102:. February 27, 2004.
1297:Tokyo Detention House
1243:
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951:
819:protection of sources
813:, regarding his anti-
530:esoteric Christianity
84:Tokyo Detention House
2198:, September 6, 1995.
1309:Tokyo District Court
1274:trial of the century
1088:Tokyo District Court
540:surname, unlike the
455:school for the blind
295:Position established
100:Execution by hanging
3787:Matsumoto incident
3279:The Daily Telegraph
3039:The Daily Telegraph
2683:. October 25, 2018.
1236:Trial and execution
1181:On April 23, 1995,
991:Yoshinori Kobayashi
989:. After cartoonist
884:, and Tatsuhiko in
733:'s science fiction
708:Biblical prophecies
667:Oumu Shinsen no Kai
544:surname Matsumoto.
514:Western esotericism
447:Kumamoto Prefecture
243:Leadership collapse
96:Cause of death
65:Kumamoto Prefecture
3364:(March 24, 2020).
3313:The New York Times
2669:on April 12, 2019.
2605:. January 1, 2012.
2525:. November 4, 1999
2142:The New York Times
1763:The New York Times
1634:The New York Times
1270:sentenced to death
1262:Matsumoto incident
1250:
1150:biological warfare
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1003:Bacillus anthracis
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942:refrigerator truck
874:Sakamoto Tatsuhiko
866:potassium chloride
843:potassium chloride
839:hypodermic needles
736:Foundation Trilogy
451:infantile glaucoma
427:sentenced to death
307:Position abolished
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3764:(removed in 2022)
3721:Tomomasa Nakagawa
3686:Kiyohide Hayakawa
3558:978-0-375-72580-7
3512:978-0-8348-0353-4
2918:Los Angeles Times
2833:on March 21, 2008
2623:The Nikkei Weekly
2184:. March 14, 2015.
2169:The Daily Yomiuri
2156:The Daily Yomiuri
2059:The Daily Shimbun
2044:The Daily Yomiuri
2003:Kaplan, David E.
1941:978-0-7656-1602-9
1906:978-0-19-515683-6
1866:978-0-8135-2489-4
1743:978-0-19-515683-6
1706:978-0-7618-1417-7
1677:978-0-387-69794-9
1577:Los Angeles Times
1557:978-0-313-32485-7
1024:Western Australia
1020:Banjawarn Station
801:In October 1989,
526:esoteric Buddhism
506:Chinese astrology
433:on July 6, 2018.
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