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The Tokyo subway sarin attack (Japanese: 地下鉄サリン事件, Hepburn: Chikatetsu sarin jiken, lit. ' subway sarin incident ' ) was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo , Japan, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo .
Me and the Cult Leader (Aganai) is a 2020 Japanese documentary film.The film follows the director, Atsushi Sakahara, a victim of the 1995 Tokyo Subway Sarin Gas Attack, and Araki Hiroshi, a current executive member of the doomsday cult Aleph (previously Aum Shinrikyo) behind the attack, as they travel to their hometowns in the Kyoto prefecture.
In addition, Lin Tainan is also suspected of manufacturing a sarin gas spraying truck for the 1994 Matsumoto sarin attack. [10] In May 1995, he planned to drop cyanide gas into the men's restroom of Shinjuku Station to disrupt the police investigation into Aum Shinrikyo leader Shoko Asahara. However, the attack ultimately failed. [1]
By Elaine Lies and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan executed on Friday the former leader of a doomsday cult and six other members of the group that carried out a sarin gas attack on the ...
Tokyo, Japan 20 March 1995 13 6252 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway - Sarin Gas was released at 5 locations along the Tokyo Metro. Aum Shinrikyo: Paris, France 25 July 1995 8 80 1995 Paris Metro bombing - A gas bottle exploded in the Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Armed Islamic Group
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
It also sought to dissolve the Aum Shinrikyo cult, after some of its members carried out a deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, which left dozens dead and thousands injured ...
A sarin gas attack on the rebel-held Ghouta in 2013 killed hundreds, but Moscow brokered a deal for Syria's chemical weapons to be destroyed, averting a U.S. response. Still, poison gas continued ...