Among the crimes attributed to Aum Shinrikyo was a sarin gas attack by senior members on five trains of the Hibiya Line, Chiyoda Line and Marunouchi Line on the Tokyo subway system on March 20, 1995.

Police connected a company with ties to the Aum Shinrikyo cult to the sarin nerve gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, 22 days after the deadly assault in June 1994, a document shows.

TOKYO, July 6. /TASS/. The founder of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, responsible for the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo, was executed by hanging together with some of his ...

Nakagawa joined Aum Shinrikyo as a medical student and became a personal doctor and close aide to the cult's leader. He was held responsible for the deaths of 25 people in 11 different incidents.

In 2016, Russia’s Supreme Court recognized Aum Shinrikyo as a terrorist organization and banned its activities in Russia MOSCOW, December 18. /TASS/. Russia’s financial monitoring watchdog has ...