People gasped for air and collapsed At 8 a.m. during the morning rush, five cult members got on separate train cars on three ... Asahara founded Aum Shinrikyo in 1984. The cult combined Hinduism ...

Sometimes it seems like it was just yesterday that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. But it was five years ago — March 11, 2024 — that we started to quarantine ...

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: The Cult at the End of the World. The film directed by Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto examines a Japanese religious movement that turned into a doomsday cult, with a man who took the name ...

First, there was the Great Hanshin Earthquake. Then, the crimes of doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo came to light. On the political front, the gubernatorial elections in Tokyo and Osaka were both won ...

The organizations removed are the Basque separatist group ETA , the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, the radical Jewish group Kahane Kach and two Islamic groups that have been active in Israel ...

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 ...

The Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult was ordered to dissolve after its senior figures were found criminally liable.