Successor group Aleph's recruitment tactics are characterized by the concealment of its name and the use of conspiracy ...

OSAKA- Only seven years into her marriage did Yuki Niimi first touch her husband – at a morgue where she collected his body ...

This well-sourced look at the group behind the Tokyo subway attack shines more light on cult tropes than it does on Aum ...

The worst terrorist attack in Japan's modern history happened 30 years ago, on March 20, 1995, during the morning rush hour ...

Survivors and victims' families are seeking justice thirty years after the fatal sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo's subway network that killed thirteen people and left thousands sickened.

The cult behind the attack has yet to compensate its victims, while its offshoots continue to gain followers and amass wealth ...

Japan on Thursday marked the 30th anniversary of the nerve gas attack on the subway system in Tokyo by the AUM Shinrikyo cult ...

We cannot forget the day in 1995 when a terrorist attack in the nation’s capital abruptly and tragically shattered so many ...

Minoru Kariya's father, Kiyoshi, then 68, was killed in an abduction case involving the doomsday cult in 1995.

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 ...

While there is no denying the horrific crimes that Asahara masterminded, this apathy toward any initial charisma undermines the victims to whom the filmmakers seek to give a voice.

TOKYO -- Three decades on from the 1995 sarin gas attacks on Tokyo subways perpetrated by Aum Shinrikyo, techniques used by the cult to recruit and manipulate followers remain in use, updated for the ...