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...brown. Shortly afterward the family living nearest the compound woke up with nausea and sore eyes. There was "a horrible smell, like burning plastic," said retired farmer Norie Okamoto, who informed the police. The cultists got off with a warning, and the villagers were furious, especially when the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper disclosed that police samples of the soil around the compound contained organic phosphorus compounds that are potential residues of sarin, matching residues in Matsumoto--and now those found in the Tokyo subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN'S PROPHET OF POISON: Shoko Asahara | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...they have. They represent the damage done not to an individual nervous system, but to a city's--perhaps a nation's--sense of security and self. As the Asahi Shimbun editorialized, "While it is hard to build a safe society, it is very easy to destroy it." One senior security official looked a reporter in the eye on Thursday and said, "Yes, I am very worried about another attack, a revenge attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN'S PROPHET OF POISON: Shoko Asahara | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...woman? Ryoji Tachio, a reporter for the daily Tokyo Shimbun, was curious. Armed only with the photo, he set out last week in Kobe to find her. After hours of scouring shelters for the homeless and asking passersby, he came upon a center for the elderly in the working-class district of Nagata. There he saw a slim woman pouring tea for quake victims. She looked older than in the photo, but when Tachio showed her the picture, she recognized herself by the striped pajama trousers and black-and-white jacket she had been wearing when the photo was taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers, Feb. 6, 1995 | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

Emiko and her father have since stayed at the center for the elderly, helping others displaced by the quake. The Tokyo Shimbun hopes to give them the money it earns from syndicating the picture. Emiko is not yet ready to return to her job. ``I thought about going someplace else to live,'' she told Tachio, ``but now I know I want to go back to the home I was born and brought up in, no matter how long it takes.'' Every day she visits the site of that house to make offerings of bread, oranges and tea in memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers, Feb. 6, 1995 | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

CREDIT: [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: Asahi Shimbun}]CAPTION: FAR AHEAD OF THE PACK

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top of The Pops | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

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