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There is one consolation: at least the Heaven's Gate members did not kill innocent people going about their daily lives, as Aum Shinrikyo cult members did in Tokyo's subway in 1995. HIDEKAZU UTSUNOMIYA Tokyo...
...belief as they embraced their own. Their very name, we could tell ourselves cosily (as we painted Easter eggs and watched outlandishly dressed icons waving golden, human-shaped statuettes), sounded like an X-Files version of a Californian health-food store. It mattered little that unlike the members of Aum Shinrikyo in Japan, say, or that Tel Aviv terrorist, they seemed to have kept mostly to themselves and been principally guilty of credulity and self-delusion...
TOKYO: Japan came to a halt Wednesday as people across the country turned their attention to a Tokyo courtroom where the cult leader accused of masterminding last year's deadly subway nerve gas attack went on trial. Aum Shinrikyo cult leader Shoko Asahara did not enter a plea to charges he killed 11 people and injured more than 3,700 in last March's attack. Public interest in Japan's "trial of the century" is intense as more than 15,000 people lined up before dawn for a lottery awarding the 48 seats available to the public. Even though there...
...Tokyo District Court, finding that Japan's Aum Shinrikyo manufactured the sarin nerve gas used in the Tokyo subway attack, ordered that the cult lose its tax-sheltered status as a religious organization. The ruling paves the way for a liquidation of Aum's assets, estimated at anywhere from $20 million to $1 billion. The proceeds from the sale would be seized by the government or used to settle lawsuits against the cult. Echoing the relief felt by a vast majority of his countrymen, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said, "We were expecting to hear this conclusion, and I am glad...
Senator Sam Nunn has revealed that the Aum Shinri Kyo cult once tried to buy materials to make nuclear and chemical weapons. Nunn, ranking minority member of the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations, told the New York Times that before the deadly nerve gas attack in Tokyo last March, the Japanese group had recruited two Russian nuclear scientists and tried to buy a $500,000 laser system that could have been used to measure plutonium. The sect, whose leader faces murder charges as a result of the subway attack, had also tried to buy 400 Israeli-made gas masks...