NONOICHI, Ishikawa Prefecture--A man reflected on what went wrong in his family after learning through news reports that his son, Yoshihiro, had been executed. “I was a complete failure as a ...

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 in 1995 ...

Source: Vadim Zhukov, Sergei Miklyayev/TASS In late September, the Russian Supreme Court issued a ruling banning the destructive Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo and recognizing it as a terrorist ...

He was 63 years old. 12 other cult members of Aum Shinrikyo were also sentenced to death for their involvement in a series of crimes that left 29 people dead. That includes the release of sarin ...

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 ...

The Aum Shinrikyo sect was founded in Japan in 1987. In 1995, the sect’s members sprayed the poisonous substance "sarin" in the Tokyo subway. Thirteen people died and about 6.3 thousand were ...

Members of the doomsday cult, which called itself Aum Shinrikyo, dropped plastic bags containing sarin liquid on the floors of five different trains and then pierced them. As the liquid evaporated ...

Director Tatsuya Mori's series of movies documenting the aftermath of the Tokyo sarin gas attacks for the remaining members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult. Their leader had organized the attacks ...

Atsushi Sakahara, a victim of the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo's subway system, travels with Hiroshi Araki, an executive of Aleph (formerly Aum Shinrikyo ... an executive member of the cult ...