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Kazuaki Okazaki (岡崎一明, Okazaki Kazuaki, October 8, 1960 – July 26, 2018) was a Japanese convicted multiple murderer and former member of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo who co-perpetrated the Sakamoto family murder and another murder in 1989. [1]
Hideo Murai (村井 秀夫 Murai Hideo, December 5, 1958 – April 23, 1995) was a member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult and one of the perpetrators responsible for the Sakamoto family murder. He also helped plan the Tokyo subway sarin attack. [1] Murai held a doctorate in astrophysics.
Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教, Oumu Shinrikyō) (1984–2007) Aleph ( Japanese : アレフ , Hepburn : Arefu ) , better known by their former name Aum Shinrikyo ( オウム真理教 , Oumu Shinrikyō , literally 'religion of Aum Supreme Truth') , is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987.
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 ...
Kenichi Hirose (広瀬 健一, Okazaki Kazuki, June 12, 1964 – July 26, 2018) was a member of the Japanese doomsday-cult group Aum Shinrikyo [1] who was convicted and executed for murder during the Tokyo subway sarin attack.
Yoshihiro Inoue (井上嘉浩, Inoue Yoshihiro, December 28, 1969 – July 6, 2018) was a former Aum Shinrikyo leader and terrorist who was executed in Japan in 2018. [1] [2] He was responsible for coordinating the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995. [3]
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 ...
The sarin attack occurred in a quiet residential area in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture.In carrying out the attack, Aum Shinrikyo 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 sarin—which the cult was manufacturing at one of its facilities—as a weapon of mass murder. [4]