The documentary Aum: The Cult at the End of the World analyzes the birth and death of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo apocalypse cult that conducted the fatal 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack. It resulted ...

The disasters struck a Japan already reeling economically. After decades as a powerhouse, it suffered a terrific crash of ...

Aum Shinrikyo (AUM), the Japanese “Supreme Truth” cult that carried out the deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 that killed 13 people and sickened hundreds more. The group has ...

Then, the crimes of doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo came to light ... On March 20, exactly 30 years ago, Aum Shinrikyo’s sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system shook the nation.

TOKYO (AP) — Thirty years on from the fatal sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo's subway network ... Asahara was found in a hidden compartment. Apocalyptic cult Born Chizuo Matsumoto in 1955, Asahara ...

One of the past cases involved the Aum Shinrikyo cult, which carried out a deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995. The other targeted the Myokakuji temple group, whose top ...

The Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult was ordered to dissolve after its senior figures were found criminally liable over incidents, including a deadly sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system ...

The assassination in 2022 of Shinzo Abe, the country’s former prime minister, led to an investigation into the group’s ...

Two earlier case involved criminal charges –- the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, which carried out a sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, and Myokakuji group, whose executives were ...

Capital punishment in Japan is under scrutiny again after the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, was awarded $1.4 million in compensation this week following his acquittal ...

Two earlier case involved criminal charges - the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, which carried out a sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, and Myokakuji group, whose executives were ...