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Damage in Sannomiya resulting from the Great Hanshin earthquake. Kasumigaseki Station, one of the many stations affected during the Sarin gas attack.. January 17 – The 6.9 M w Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
1995 France bombings: A bomb was thrown at an underground commuter train. The train was derailed and damaged. No one was killed, but 29 people were injured. [8] GIA Algerian Civil War October 20 Suicide car bombing 0 (+1) 29: Rijeka, Croatia: 1995 Rijeka bombing: A car bomb was detonated in front of a police station. The perpetrator driving the ...
Garfield, Brian (1995) [1969]. The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. ISBN 0-912006-83-8. OCLC 33358488. Goldstein, Donald M.; Katherine V. Dillon (1992). The Williwaw War: The Arkansas National Guard in the Aleutians in World War. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.
The sarin attack was the most serious attack upon Japan since World War II. Shortly after the attack, Aum lost its status as a religious organization, and many of its assets were seized. [64] The Diet (Japanese parliament) rejected a request from government officials to outlaw the group.
Japan has a 99% conviction rate, and a system of so-called "hostage justice" which, according to Kanae Doi, Japan director at Human Rights Watch, "denies people arrested their rights to a ...
The 1995 Okinawa rape incident (Japanese: 沖縄米兵少女暴行事件) occurred on September 4, 1995, when three U.S. servicemen, 22-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman Marcus Gill, 21-year-old U.S. Marines Rodrico Harp, and 20-year-old Kendrick Ledet, all serving at Camp Hansen on Okinawa, rented a van and kidnapped a 12-year-old Okinawan girl.
In March 2017, Daub hitchhiked the length of Japan, [6] sharing the experience via a new all mobile livestreaming channel called ONLY in JAPAN * GO which has 314,000 subscribers as of February 2023. He collected the YouTube 1 Million subscriber award at the [ 7 ] YouTube FanFest Japan 2019 cementing him as one of the top YouTube creators in Japan.
Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon used an Air Force One plane known as SAM 970. The first jet-powered presidential aircraft featured an office and a safe for the nuclear codes.