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    The Tokyo subway sarin attack (地下鉄サリン事件, Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken, "Subway Sarin Incident") was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on 20 March 1995...
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  • was perpetrated nine months before the better-known Tokyo subway sarin attack. The sarin attack occurred in a quiet residential area in the city of Matsumoto...
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    carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was found to have been responsible for the Matsumoto sarin attack the previous year. The...
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    1969) and Sugamo Station. 1991: The Tokyo Metro Namboku Line opens. 1995: On 20 March, the Tokyo subway sarin attack occurred on the Marunouchi, Hibiya...
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  • Shoko Asahara (category Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators)
    Aum Shinrikyo. He was convicted of masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and was also involved in several other crimes. Asahara was...
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  • Ikuo Hayashi (category Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators)
    Shinrikyo member convicted for his participation in the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Prior to joining Aum, Hayashi was a senior medical doctor...
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    Socialist Party on May 10. On March 20, 1995, the Tokyo subway sarin attack occurred, the deadliest terrorist attack in Japan as defined by modern standards. Murayama...
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  • Kenichi Hirose (category Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators)
    Shinrikyo who was convicted and executed for murder during the Tokyo subway sarin attack. Born in 1964, Hirose was an outstanding student in his early...
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  • Tomomitsu Niimi (category Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators)
    Shinrikyo member convicted for his participation in the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway and a number of other crimes. He was Aum's "minister of internal...
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    a testing ground. 1995: Tokyo subway sarin attack; the Aum Shinrikyo sect released an impure form of sarin in the Tokyo Metro. Twelve people died, and...
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  • Yoshihiro Inoue (category Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators)
    executed in Japan in 2018. He was responsible for coordinating the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995. His holy name was Aananda and his stage in the cult was...
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  • Seiichi Endo (category Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators)
    participation in the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack and a number of other crimes. He was the man who produced the Sarin gas for the attack after leader Shoko...
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    non-fiction works including Underground (1997), an oral history of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007), a memoir...
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    Kasumigaseki (category Districts of Chiyoda, Tokyo)
    Kasumigaseki Station was one of the stations affected during the Tokyo subway sarin attack. 2nd Bldg. of the Central Common Government Office Japan Transport...
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  • Kazuaki Okazaki (category Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators)
    abandoned the cult and turned himself in to the police after the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995. He was tried and was sentenced to death for those crimes...
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  • Hideo Murai (category Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators)
    responsible for the Sakamoto family murder. He also helped plan the Tokyo subway sarin attack. Murai held a doctorate in astrophysics. He was reportedly the...
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  • Cure (film) (category Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in fiction)
    Evangelist (伝道師, Dendoushi), the film's name was changed due to the Tokyo subway sarin attack perpetrated by Aum Shinrikyo that happened while the film was...
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  • Masami Tsuchiya (terrorist) (category Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators)
    charged with seven counts: the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack that killed 12 people; the June 1994 sarin attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, that...
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    Osaka school massacre (category Knife attacks in Japan)
    time, it was tied with the Matsumoto sarin attack as the second deadliest, behind the Tokyo subway sarin attack. The incident set itself apart, however...
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    responsible for the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack. According to Asahi, the suspect said to police that he had prepared for an arson attack "I planned to set...
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  • in 1995, in the wake of the Great Hanshin earthquake and the Tokyo subway sarin attack. These traumatic events, combined with the economic recession...
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    Heavy Industries bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack in Japan until the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995. The East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front (Higashi...
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  • former think tank researcher Yōko Kamikawa, had taken part in the Tokyo subway sarin attack of 1995. Note: Inmates noted with a * were sentenced to death...
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    "Iran attacks: 'IS' hits parliament and Khomeini mausoleum - BBC News". 7 June 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2020. "Islamic State claims stunning attack in...
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    2021 Tokyo stabbings Akihabara massacre Kawasaki stabbings Osaka school massacre Sagamihara stabbings Suicidal ideation Tokyo subway sarin attack "Man...
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  • Lin Tainan (category People from Tokyo)
    series of crimes, such as the Matsumoto sarin attack led by Aum Shinrikyo and the Tokyo subway sarin attack. Lin Tainan was arrested on December 3, 1996...
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    was a large 6.8 earthquake in Kobe, Hyōgo and sarin gas terrorist attacks were carried out on the Tokyo Metro by the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo. Failure...
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    List of unsolved murders Syria and weapons of mass destruction Tokyo subway sarin attack Use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war See § Initial...
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  • Ten Commandments of God Order of the Solar Temple Aum Shinrikyo Tokyo subway sarin attack "Heaven's Gate". Heaven's Gate. Retrieved July 31, 2018. Goldwag...
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