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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. He was convicted of masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and was also involved in several other crimes.
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Asahara predicted the gathering at Armageddon would happen in 1997. [20] Kaplan notes that in his lectures, Shoko Asahara referred to the United States as "The Beast" from the Book of Revelation, predicting it would eventually attack Japan. [20] Asahara outlined a doomsday prophecy, which included a Third World War instigated by the U.S. [71]
The court found that the murder was committed by order of the group's founder, Shoko Asahara, although not all of the perpetrators testified to this effect, and Asahara denied involvement. Asahara's legal team claims that blaming him is an attempt to shift personal responsibility to a higher authority. [13] [14]
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An exception of this is the usage of propaganda footage created by the cult in the game's introduction, portraying an Aum follower attempting to fly using a meditation practice called Darduri Siddhi (Asahara began the cult as a yoga class, and claimed he could fly using this technique), which is followed by a video of Aum spokesperson Fumihiro ...
Concerning the former members who now testify against their guru [Asahara] who did them so much good, I believe their suffering is based on the perceptions that this world is real". [citation needed] Niimi was among the first seven of the Aum Shinrikyo members on death row to be executed on 6 July 2018, including leader Shoko Asahara. [5]
A is a 1998 Japanese documentary film about the Aum Shinrikyo cult following the arrest of its leaders for instigating the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. The film focuses on a young spokesman for the cult Hiroshi Araki, a troubled 28-year-old who had severed all family ties and rejected all forms of materialism before joining the sect.