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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.