The Staff was also told by former Aum members that the Aum wanted to recruit employees in the Prime Minister's personal office and in particular those employees who had access to statistical information concerning. SAPPORO –. On June 27, 1994, seven people were killed and more than 500 hospitalized after Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas from a truck by driving slowly around an apartment complex in Matsumoto, Nagano. He was convicted of masterminding the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and was also. Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, was executed by hanging today for the deaths of over a dozen people in a terrorist attack on a Tokyo subway in 1995. Episode 5 focuses on Shoko Asahara, leader of the meditation and yoga cult Aum Shinrikyo. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) plans to serve the arrest. and had more than 10,000 members in Japan alone. A government panel decided not to invoke an Anti-Subversive Law to ban Aum Shinrikyo, concluding that the group poses no future threat, although the group continued to operate and to recruit new members. YOKOHAMA, Japan, Feb. Following the attacks, hundreds of cult members were arrested; AumOn November 5, 1989, Tsutsumi Sakamoto (坂本 堤 Sakamoto Tsutsumi April 6, 1956 – November 5, 1989), a lawyer working on a class action lawsuit against Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult in Japan, was murdered, along with his wife Satoko and his child Tatsuhiko, by perpetrators who broke into his apartment. In January 1995, two months before the poison gas attack in the Tokyo subway, a blatantly anti-Semitic tract, under the title “Manual of Fear: The Jewish Ambition – Total World Conquest,” was published in the journal Vajrayana Saccaof the apocalyptic religious cult Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth). On Dec. though Aum Shinrikyo killed 27 people in its attacks, the group was feared because its chemical attacks injured and indirectly affected over 6,000 civilians. He was arrested in 1995 in the wake of the sarin. Tomoko is now a member of one of two splinter groups that emerged after Aum was forcibly disbanded by the Japanese police. The Tokyo High Court upheld Friday a lower court's death sentence against former senior AUM Shinrikyo member Tomomasa Nakagawa who was convicted of involvement in the killings of 25 people in various criminal cases from 1989 to 1995, including the cult's sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway and in Nagano Prefecture. The U. Cult leader Shoko Asahara, real name Chizuo Matsumoto, and six other members of Aum Shinrikyo were hanged at a Tokyo detention centre on Friday morning, Japan’s Ministry. 00. [00:12:18] And, as a reminder, although all sexual activity was banned by the rules of Aum Shinrikyo, its leader, Shoko Asahara had at least six. I. The Aum Shinrikyo began their attacks in 1994 in Matsumoto where they used the refrigerator truck to release sarin near the homes of three judges who were overseeing a lawsuit that was predicted to go against the cult. seen as being rampant and the decay of the temporal world is believed to be getting progressively worse. I am not super familiar with this cult, but I am willing to guess that most of the cult was not in the position to know with certainty if their beliefs were. In 1995 it carried out a Sarin chemical attack that killed 13 people and injured. The Hokkaido prefectural police raided a four-story building in Sapporo's Shiroishi Ward understood to be used by Aleph. The second section examines how policing was effective in ending Aum Shinrikyo as a terrorist organization. Shoko Asahara headed the Aum Shinrikyo cult. 2, 1994, Aum members attempted to murder Mizuno with VX because he had helped the family of an Aum member who wanted to leave the cult. Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga confirmed that Asahara was executed Friday. LinkedIn. ” Scores of Aum members have faced trial over the attack, and 13 were sentenced to death, including Asahara. Russian police have raided 25 premises in Moscow and St Petersburg linked to the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult. The sarin attack–and reports that Aum experimented. The banned cult was responsible for a deadly sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo. Aum Shinrikyo members testified in 1995 that they were working with B. Asahara and six other members of Aum Shinrikyo cult, which gassed Tokyo subway in 1995, hanged. AFP. Founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo killed its opponents, developed chemical weapons, and gassed Tokyo's subways with sarin in 1995. I. When Aum’s top members transitioned to using violence, they readily brought other leaders down this path and effectively persuaded, iso-lated or killed dissidents. Aum Supreme Truth (Aum) A cult (also know as Aum Shinrikyo and Aleph) established in 1987 by Shoko Asahara, the Aum aimed to take over Japan and then the world. Seven members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult which carried out a deadly chemical attack on the Tokyo underground in. Makoto Hirata (rear centre) was arrested on suspicion of abduction. Now Mr. Sogo Kenkyusho; Aleph; Aum Supreme Truth. Shizue Takahashi, whose husband was killed by doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo's sarin nerve gas attack while on duty at Tokyo Metro Kasumigaseki Station attends a memorial on March 20, 2018 in Tokyo. "Tokyo police have arrested the last fugitive member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, Katsuya Takahashi, who was on the run for 17 years," NHK WORLD reports. Aum Shinrikyo. Founder Shoko. An Aum Shinrikyo figure was sentenced to death Tuesday for taking part in the November 1989 murders of an anti-Aum lawyer and his family and the deadly June 1994 nerve gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture. Aum Shinrikyo is listed as a terrorist organization because of the 1995 attack and for previous attempts to carry out biological and chemical attacks. The sarin attack–and reports that Aum experimented. Even Western media treated AS like that during their coverage of the Sarin attacks AS perpetrated. A former member of the notorious Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo has been sentenced to death. On March 20, five cult members distributed sarin on five separate subway lines bound for the Kasumagaseki station, Tokyo’s busiest; 12 people were killed and thousands injured. May 16, 1995 — Asahara is arrested. It renamed itself Aleph in 2000. speculate that the cult may have obtained both Sterne and. Henry Holt and Co. Photo: AFP/ Toshifumi Kitamura. Aum Shinrikyo was also linked with 13 other cases, for a total of 29 deaths. The police later confirmed that Aum had conducted experiments on the sheep there. , New York, 1999. After the stabbing of Murai, a large force of police officers appeared outside the Aum office to protect other members of the cult -- at the same time as they are investigating it in connection. The attack was carried out by members of the new religious movement AUM Shinrikyo (since 2000 called Aleph) and killed 13 people and injured more than 5,000. 1 January 2012. Cult head Shoko Asahara is on death row, along with 12 of his disciples, for crimes including the metro attack, which killed 13 people and injured thousands. Most studies portray Aum Shinrikyo’s development from the hindsight of the poison-gas attack, thereby suggesting that it was an internal and consequent process initiated in the very beginning and “necessarily” by its. On the morning of 20 March 1995, Aum members released a binary chemical weapon, most closely chemically similar to sarin, in a coordinated attack on five trains in the Tokyo subway system, killing 13 commuters, seriously injuring 54 and affecting 980 more. The attack occurred during morning peak hour and. State Department in 2012 estimated that there were roughly 1,500 Aum Shinrikyo members in Japan, and around 300 in Russia. By Zachary Lynn The idea of a cult that wants to end the world is a staple of fiction and science fiction. – Killer: “I was forced to strangle him. Aum trials leave many questions unanswered. Justice finally caught up with Shoko Asahara, 63, the founder of Aum Shinrikyo, a murderous neo-Buddhist cult most infamous for a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. The building was just a few. Julian Ryall, Tokyo. Eight are killed and hundreds more injured in the attack. Even after stepping down as Prime Minister, in the summer of 2020. Abstract. C. Twenty years later, a number of victims continue to suffer physical or. In March 1995, the Tokyo subway attack by Aum Shinrikyo signaled the emergence of a new global trend in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear terrorism. After the arrests of Asahara and his wife Tomoko, Rika was raised by her two older, adult sisters and personal attendants who had acted as her guardians. The university launched a lecture to study the connection between society and science and technology in 1996, the year after a series of AUM attacks, when police began raiding AUM facilities on. TOKYO — Japanese police on Friday arrested the man thought to be the final suspect from the doomsday cult behind a 1995 deadly poison gas attack on Tokyo’s subways, at last. Since its horrific sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system on March 20, 1995, the millennialist religious group Aum Shinrikyo has been a constant presence in the Japanese media. 13 upheld the death penalty that was handed down in thefirst trial at the Tokyo District Court and rejected. Description: Aum Shinrikyo (AUM) was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization on October 8, 1997. Shoko Asahara: Masterminded a deadly attack on Japan’s subway system. Shoko Asahara (麻原 彰晃, Asahara Shōkō, March 2, 1955 – July 6, 2018), born Chizuo Matsumoto (松本 智津夫, Matsumoto Chizuo), was the founder and leader of the Japanese doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo. Six years before 9/11, then-Fire Chief Ed Plaugher listened with deep concern to reports of a sarin nerve gas release by a cult then known as Aum Shinrikyo during rush hour in the Tokyo subway. a few members of the police who were Aum believers, as well as the religion’s medical personnel, mostly in their twenties and thirties, have been arrested and charged with a variety of criminal offenses. A few days later, several members took part in a series of mass murder-suicides in Switzerland. The Mainichi says. Cult leader Shoko. Shoko Asahara was hanged with six other members of the Aum Shinrikyo on Friday, more than two decades after his followers killed 12 people and injured thousands during the rush hour on 20 March 1995. Police on Monday searched five offices and facilities of the main successor group to the Aum Shinrikyo cult that was responsible for the 1995 Tokyo subway nerve gas. 1995 (April 23): Murai Hideo (one of Aum’s leaders, central to its weapons program) was stabbed to death in public in Tokyo. The cult was not given the opportunity to be set free if they recanted their belief. March 29, 2016. In early 1995, members of a doomsday cult called Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas on the Tokyo Metro at rush hour, killing more than a dozen and injuring hundreds. 15 June 2012 The BBC's Roland Buerk says Mr Takahashi was spotted at an internet cafe by a member of the public Police in Japan have arrested the last fugitive of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday. Ogi Kazuharu, "Aum to Roshia," Aera. It is also suspected in several kidnappings and the shooting of the chief. April 1995 A Russian court bans all Aum Shinrikyo activities. Japanese police said Makoto Hirata gave himself up. YOKOHAMA, Nov. Some estimates claim as many. 1995, when senior Aum members arrested after the sarin attack confessed that they had killed the Sakamoto family on Asahara’s orders and disposed of the bodies. Again, the murder was not solved until after the Tokyo subway attacks. the religious sect that killed 12 people in a nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subways in 1995 tried to convince Japanese society that it was no longer a threat. AFP/Getty Images. By 1992, Aum Shinrikyo had a net worth of more than $1 billion raised from charging exorbitant fees from its roughly 20,000 members in several countries, including the US, Australia and Russia. Analyses of Aum Shinrikyo—or Aleph as it is now called—must necessarily come to grips with the task of explaining the 1995 poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. As an infant, he lost all sight in his left eye and. Former Japanese PM Abe was on Friday shot by suspect Tetsuya Yamagami, a 41-year-old former navy member; He told police he was ‘frustrated’ with Abe and wanted to kill him over complaints that. Approved as a religious entity in 1989 under Japanese law, the group ran candidates in a Japanese parliamentary election in 1990. The series of incidents involving AUM Shinrikyo occurred as people's sense of reality considerably decreased from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s -- from the start to the burst of the economic. Japanese police said Makoto Hirata gave. AFP/Getty Images. In this file picture taken on July 19, 1995, Shoko Asahara (centre), head of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is transferred from Tokyo police headquarters to Tokyo District Court for questioning. TOKYO (AP) — Thirteen members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult were hanged this month for crimes committed in the 1990s, culminating in sarin nerve gas attack on the. 7 at a hospital in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, where he had been staying. Founded by Jim Jones in Indianapolis, Indiana, the cult is most known for the. Description Formed in Japan in 1987, Aum Shinrikyo (Aum) is a religious organization with a belief system that mixes various religions – primarily Buddhism – with science fiction and the. 22 · 16 November 2000. The Aum Shinrikyo Cult was not put to death for a belief, they were put to death for a terrorist action. Aum Shinrikyo is a Japanese doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism. Yanagisawa, like many others, suspected the same people committed both attacks: the members of the cult Aum Shinrikyo. Jul 6, 2018. Families and railway staff members observed a moment of. Footnote 84 Prior to Rudolph’s attack, Rathburn requested the FBI research to see if any bomb threats in the United States had led to an actual bombing. VXConsidered an expert on Aum Shinrikyo. I have covered weird religious phenomenon before, let. Asahara, the visually impaired self-styled guru of Aum Shinrikyo, was sentenced to death in 2004 in part for directing Japan's deadliest terrorist attack — a complex plot that came to fruition. On New Year's Eve another former member of Aum Shinrikyo, Makoto Hirata, turned himself in to police after nearly 17 years on the run. Credit: AFP / JIJI PRESS The companies sought and were granted. After the 1995 subway attack, Japanese police discovered that Aum Shinrikyo had accumulated hundreds of tons of chemicals in order to make enough sarin gas to kill millions of people. The ruling brings to an end 16 years of prosecutions, and leaves 13 members of Aum Shinrikyo facing execution. Additionally, the attack caused over 6,000 people to seek medical treatment. • Kotaro Ochido, Aum member, was killed for trying to leave the sect (disobeying Aum rules). Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教, Oumu Shinrikyō) was a cult/terrorist group in Japan. The organization came to public attention when it was learned that several of its top leaders had perpetrated the Tokyo subway attack of 1995, in which 13 people. On June 27, 1994, seven people were killed and more than 500 hospitalized after Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas from a truck by driving slowly around an apartment complex in Matsumoto, Nagano. During 1999 to 2001. by Ben Dorman. The banned cult was responsible for a deadly sarin nerve. The execution of Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara and six other members of the doomsday cult convicted of numerous deadly crimes, including the 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway trains, may. At its peak cult had 10,000 members. 3. While B. Takimoto had in many respects taken over Sakamoto’s anti-Aum campaign after his disappearance. Attempted murder of victims' group leader Hiroyuki Nagaoka On Jan. In July 2018, Japan executed the. AB - This chapter illustrates the Kameido Anthrax incident. Japanese citizens were as unprepared for a terrorist attack then as those in the United States were from a two Chechen brothers who set off conventional bombs at the Boston Marathon in April 2013. By Alex Johnson. There was a mass exodus of Aum members, between eighty and ninety. The 54-year-old suspect was. April 8, 1995 Ikuo Hayashi, the head of the Treatment Ministry is arrested. This year, Keim used the database to identify what went wrong when the Aum Shinrikyo cult attempted to kill thousands of people by spraying steady mists of anthrax from a rooftop and a vented van. The focal point of the group is its devotion to Shoko. December 12–AUM members kill a member, Tadahito Hamaguchi, with highly toxic VX gas on an Osaka street. 1994. $24. Tokyo subway attack of 1995, coordinated terrorist attack in Tokyo on March 20, 1995, in which the nerve gas sarin was released in the city’s subway system. Aum Shinrikyo was founded on the basis of meditation and spiritual guidance, but before long, it was a group determined to jump-start the apocalypse. AFP. Japanese Police raided many of Aum Shinrikyo’s compounds following the attack. The sarin nerve-gas attack killed 13 people, poisoned over 6,000 and terrorised a city that. . The Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese religious sect, first came to worldwide attention in 1995 when the sect attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a chemical nerve agent. Representative incidents committed by them include the murder of lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto and his family in 1989, the Aum Shinrikyo National Territory Use Planning Act violation case in 1990, the Kameido Odor Incident in 1993, the Matsumoto Sarin Case in 1994, and the Meguro Notary Public Office in 1995. While it is not surprising that the actions of this Japanese religious cult have been the subject of much discussion, those doing the talking have come to disparate conclusions as to just what Aum Shinrikyo’s activities prove or disprove regarding chemical and biological terrorism. Kid (21 at the time) in my home town somehow magically reached for a cop's gun and shot himself in the back of the head while handcuffed. Police immediately suspect AUM. Although Aum. He also helped plan the Tokyo subway sarin attack. Yamagata confess how he killed Mr. The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row are executed for a series of crimes in the 1990s including a sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed 13 people. Less well known is the ambitious biological weapons program that preceded the group’s chemical exploits. Police secretly searched cult facilities, but before the search took place, the cult carried out the Tokyo subway Sarin gas attack. The sect, Aum Shinrikyo, is the leading suspect in the subway attack, which killed 12 people and injured more than 5,500. Under instructions from AUM leader Shoko Asahara, 15 senior members conspired to take plastic bags containing sarin liquid onto five Tokyo subway trains and release the poison by puncturing the bags with umbrellas, vaporizing the nerve agent, during the. The system, called Maritime Operational Force, has been in operation since March 1999 at the MSDF headquarters in Yokosuka, the sources said.