A bureau chief who oversaw police investigations into Aum Shinrikyo said he feels responsible for the “indecision” on a crackdown that allowed the cult to commit its deadly gas attack in Tokyo ...

The attack was perpetrated by the Aum Shinrikyo cult, killing 14 people and injuring over 6,000. How did the group carry out such an indiscriminate act of terrorism using chemical weapons?

The chilling legacy of doomsday cult-turned-domestic terrorists Aum Shinrikyo is now being captured on the 30th anniversary ...

The son of a victim in an abduction case involving the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult wants perpetrators to continue feeling remorse 30 years on. "There are two kinds of atonement," said Minoru ...

It took place during the weekday morning commute, when members of a doomsday cult called Aum Shinrikyo released five packages ...

On March 20th five members of Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult, boarded separate trains on the capital’s subway carrying bags filled with sarin, a deadly nerve gas. The poison spread through the ...

The cult, Aum Shinrikyo or Supreme Truth, has since disbanded. Its founder, Shoko Asahara, and 12 of his disciples were executed in 2018. But 1,600 former members still operate under renamed ...

TOKYO -- Three decades since the deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway by the Aum Shinrikyo cult, Japan is contending with starkly different threats from lone-wolf attackers who turn to ...

The cult, Aum Shinrikyo or Supreme Truth, has since disbanded. Its founder, Shoko Asahara, and 12 of his disciples were executed in 2018. But 1,600 former members still operate under renamed ...

Before that, a glass screen had always separated her from her death-row spouse Tomomitsu Niimi, a notorious member of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult that 30 years ago orchestrated a nerve agent ...

Three successor groups of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo continue to attract new young members, 30 years after the doomsday cult carried out a deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system.

Documentarians Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto follow religious cult Aum Shinrikyo’s descent into media chaos, missing person cases and murder. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in Jan.