The Public Security Intelligence Agency has identified the second son of Shoko Asahara — the founder of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo cult — as the de facto head of Aleph, the group regarded as Aum’s successor. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/22/japan/aum-shinrikyo-son/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #aumshinrikyo #shokoasahara #saitama #japanesepolice #tokyosaringasattack

Police in Saitama Prefecture have found tens of millions of yen in cash at the home of the wife of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder Chizuo Matsumoto, who went by the name Shoko Asahara. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/japan/crime-legal/aum-shinrikyo-founder-wife/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #aumshinrikyo #shokoasahara #saitama #japanesepolice #tokyosaringasattack

Cut loose, footloose no longer: In June 1925, Tokyo dance halls were ordered to close by 10 p.m. over concerns that “the moral integrity of (young people) has not been helped by Western dancing.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/04/japan/history/dance-curfew-communist-purge-sato-funeral-aum-shinrikyo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #dancing #douglasmacarthur #coldwar #japanesecommunistparty #jcp #eisakusato #statefuneral #nipponbudokan #aumshinrikyo #terrorism #tokyosaringasattack

1,400 Photos Donated to Remember Horror of Aum Shinrikyo https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/18/japan/japan-aum-shinrikyo-cult-pictures-donated/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #aumshinrikyo #yamanashi #shokoasahara #seiichitakeuchi #terrorism #tokyosaringasattack

Kazuo Asakawa still remembers the smiles of his younger sister despite her long battle against the aftereffects of Aum Shinrikyo's sarin nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/21/japan/tokyo-sarin-attack-victim/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #tokyosaringasattack #aumshinrikyo #terrorism

Japan marked the 30th anniversary on Thursday of the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, which killed 14 people and injured over 6,000. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/20/japan/aum-sarin-gas-attack-30th-anniversary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #aumshinrikyo #shokoasahara #terrorism #tokyosaringasattack #kasumigaseki

An ex-instructor for the Ground Self-Defense Force Chemical School said measures have progressed after the Aum Shinrikyo cult's 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system but warned against complacency. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/20/japan/aum-sarin-gas-attack-sdf/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #aumshinrikyo #terrorism #tokyosaringasattack #sdf #gsdf

Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki called for caution over the three successor groups to Aum Shinrikyo, ahead of the 30th anniversary on Thursday of the doomsday cult's sarin nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/19/japan/crime-legal/justice-minister-comments-aum/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #aumshinrikyo #aleph #hikarinowa #yamadaranoshudan #tokyosaringasattack #shokoasahara

The health ministry will electronically preserve medical records of victims of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway system, starting from April at the earliest. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/18/japan/japan-cult-sarin-gas-attack-medical-records/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #aumshinrikyo #health #mhlw #shokoasahara #tokyosaringasattack #terrorism #massmurder

Thirty years after a sarin attack on Tokyo's subway system, a former emergency room physician describes the terror of treating large numbers of patients without initially knowing what happened to them. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/18/japan/japan-cult-sarin-attack-ex-doctor/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #aumshinrikyo #hospitals #stluke039sinternationalhospital #shokoasahara #tokyosaringasattack #terrorism #massmurder