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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.
All of those implicated in the Sakamoto murders received death sentences. [12] 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 ...
Amnesty International criticized use of the death penalty in the case. While executions are rare in Japan, they have public support according to surveys. [55] There were 13 members on death row at the time: An anti–Aum Shinrikyo banner in 2014. Aum Shinrikyo members executed on 6 July 2018: [54] Shoko Asahara, leader of Aum Shinrikyo
Japan hanged Shoko Asahara on Friday and six other members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, which killed 13 people in an attack that shattered the country's myth of public safety. Japan on alert after ...
The execution of Japanese doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara leaves unanswered questions about Aum Shinrikyo, the group behind the 1995 sarin-gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people ...
Fined $400,000 and given a 10-year suspended sentence following a plea bargain agreement in which he made an Alford plea to (1) a charge of having concealed his intent to remain permanently in the U.S. at the time he applied for his visa extension and (2) a charge of having conspired to have followers stay illegally in the country by having ...
Date Place Crime Victim(s) Minister 1 Seikichi Kondo 55 M 26 March 1993 Sendai: Multiple murders 2 Masaharu Gotoda: 2 Shujiro Tachikawa 62 M Osaka: Multiple murders 2 3 Tetsuo Kawanaka 48 M Osaka Multiple murders 3 4 Tadao Kojima 61 M 26 November 1993 Sapporo: Multiple murders 3 Akira Mikazuki: 5 Yukio Seki 47 M Tokyo: Single murder 1 6 Hideo ...
It comes a day after another court handed a death sentence to a Chinese man who attacked a Japanese mother and child and killed a Chinese woman who tried to protect them in Suzhou city in June.