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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.
Shoko Asahara: 63 M 6 July 2018 [18] Tokyo Multiple murders: 29 114 Seiichi Endo: 58 M Tokyo 115 Masami Tsuchiya: 53 M Tokyo 116 Tomomitsu Niimi: 54 M Osaka 117 Yoshihiro Inoue: 48 M Osaka 118 Tomomasa Nakagawa: 55 M Hiroshima 119 Kiyohide Hayakawa: 68 M Fukuoka 120 Satoru Hashimoto: 51 M 26 July 2018 [19] Tokyo 121 Yasuo Hayashi: 60 M Sendai ...
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 ...
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 ...
Concerning the former members who now testify against their guru [Asahara] who did them so much good, I believe their suffering is based on the perceptions that this world is real". [citation needed] Niimi was among the first seven of the Aum Shinrikyo members on death row to be executed on 6 July 2018, including leader Shoko Asahara. [5]
The sarin gas attack killed 13 people and sickened more than 6,000
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 ...
At the same time, he and his girlfriend broke up. All this made Lin Tainan mentally unstable. During this period, Lin Tainan, who was in a depressed mood, began to read the books of Asahara Shoko, the leader of Aum Shinrikyo (then called "Aum Shinkai") and gradually got closer to Shoko Asahara's predecessor, Aum Shinkai. In 1987, Lin Tainan ...