The Economist3d
How a year of tremor and terror transformed Japan
The disasters struck a Japan already reeling economically. After decades as a powerhouse, it suffered a terrific crash of ...
Japanese Court Disbands Unification Church in Wake of Abe Killing
The assassination in 2022 of Shinzo Abe, the country’s former prime minister, led to an investigation into the group’s ...
Tokyo Court Orders Japan’s First-Ever Revocation of Religious Legal Status for Unification Church
The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification is the first religious group to face a revocation order under Japan’s ...
The Japan News8d
Japan Authorities Boost Responses to Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Threats; Officials Warn Against Public Complacency
The Self-Defense Forces, police and other authorities across Japan have bolstered their abilities to deal with a terrorist ...
30 years after deadly Tokyo subway gassing, survivors and victims’ families still seeking closure
Survivors and victims' families are seeking justice thirty years after the fatal sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo's subway ...
The World from PRX10d
30 years since Japan’s worst domestic terrorist attack, the cult group behind it is ‘ongoing problem,’ officials say
The worst terrorist attack in Japan's modern history happened 30 years ago, on March 20, 1995, during the morning rush hour ...
IFLScience11d
Tokyo Underground Sarin Attack At 30: Who Was The Deranged Doomsday Cult Responsible?
Following the Tokyo underground attack, Asahara and his inner circle responsible for the sarin release were arrested and ...
The Manhattan Mercury13d
Japan victims voice fears 30 years after sarin subway attack
Three decades since Shizue Takahashi's husband and a dozen others were killed with a nerve agent on Tokyo's subway, she fears ...
France 2413d
Japan cult widow speaks 30 years after subway attack
Osaka (Japan) (AFP) – Only seven years into her marriage did Yuki Niimi first touch her husband -- at a morgue where she collected his body after he was executed, and kissed him in a coffin.
Kyodo News+14d
Victims of 1995 AUM sarin attack struggling with PTSD, survey shows
In the AUM Shinrikyo attack, the nerve agent was scattered in five subway train cars during the morning rush hour at the instruction of cult founder Shoko Asahara. Asahara, whose real name was Chizuo ...