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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 .
Anti-Aum Shinrikyo protest in Japan. The Tokyo subway sarin attack, usually referred to in the Japanese media as the Subway Sarin Incident (地下鉄サリン事件 Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken?), was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on March 20, 1995, in Tokyo, Japan by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult.
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 ...
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]
TOKYO (AP) — The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed Thursday for a series of crimes in the 1990s including a sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways ...
The Matsumoto sarin attack was an attempted assassination perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan on the night of June 27, 1994. Eight people were killed [ 1 ] [ 3 ] and more than 500 were harmed by sarin aerosol that was released from a converted refrigerator truck in the Kaichi Heights ...
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (アンダーグラウンド, Andāguraundo, 1997–1998) is a book by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami about the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. The book is made up of a series of interviews with individuals who were affected by the attacks, and the English ...
Still poison gas continued to hit rebel areas, with a 2017 sarin attack prompting Trump to order a cruise missile response. Assad has denied accusations the state was to blame.