Word: fuji
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shinrikyo cult, he was hiding in the dark, lying alone in a space not much bigger than a coffin. For four hours police had searched the unlighted interior of Satian No. 6 (satian is Sanskrit for "supreme truth"), a warehouse in an Aum compound near Mount Fuji. Then an investigator tapped on a wall and found a hollow spot. Police cut in with an electric saw and discovered a bearded man in a deep pink pajama suit lying in a compartment about 10 ft. long and 3 ft. high. With him were a cassette player, some medicine...
...thedeadly poisoning on Tokyo's subway. After all, he said: "I have so many followers, it's impossible for me to know what everybody's doing." Yet even as the cult leader maintained his innocence, police discovered another huge storehouse of nerve gas ingredients in the sect's Mt. Fuji compound. Asahara is getting no help from his followers. Under questioning, theguru's top lieutenants have said that Asahara masterminded the attack, having laid plans two years ago for the cult to start manufacturing chemical weapons. Officials have now arrested all but seven of the 41 cult members sought...
...Japanese cult leader, and 14 of his followers. Asahara was charged Monday with murder inthe Mar. 20 nerve gas attack on Tokyo subways. The bearded, 40-year-old guru was meditating alone in a hidden, steel-fortified room at the Aum Shinri Kyo cult's rural compound beneath Mount Fuji when police broke in last night. He surrendered peacefully, with one proviso: "Don't touch me," investigators said he told police doctors. "I don't even let my followers touch...
...Japanese cult leader charged Monday with murder in theMar. 20 nerve gas attackon Tokyo subways. They also took 14 of his followers into custody. The bearded, 40-year-old guru was meditating alone in a hidden, steel-fortified room at theAum Shinri Kyo cult'srural compound beneath Mount Fuji when police broke in. He surrendered peacefully, with one proviso: "Don't touch me," investigators said he told police doctors. "I don't even let my followers touch me." The Japanese Cabinet held an emergency meeting at dawn as tens of thousands of chemical warfare and regular troops went on alert...
Japanese police arrested two high officials of Aum Shinrikyo found hiding in a secret basement beneath one of the cult's compounds near Mount Fuji. Though the two were arrested on other charges, authorities believe they may have been involved in last month's nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Earlier in the week, an Aum official was stabbed to death as he walked through a crowd toward the cult's Tokyo offices; his confessed killer identified himself as a member of a rightist group and said he wanted to kill an Aum leader because of the sect...