[.408Cheytac]

The Sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, usually referred to in the Japanese media as the Subway Sarin Incident (地下鉄サリン事件 Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken?), was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated by members of Aum Shinrikyo on March 20, 1995.

In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on several lines of the Tokyo Metro, killing thirteen people, severely injuring fifty and causing temporary vision problems for nearly a thousand others. The attack was directed against trains passing through Kasumigaseki and Nagatachō, home to the Japanese government. It is the most serious attack to occur in Japan since the end of World War II.

[.408Cheytac]

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[Bastet]

Oh yes, I remember this. I was 10 years old and in elementary school and since my classmates and I were so shocked about this attack (everybody had either seen it on TV or read about it from newspapers), we even spent one lesson discussing about it. At least I don't remember any other class would have done the same but perhaps we were conscious for 10-year-old kids or then we just had a smart teacher

[luton loyal]

[Curb Stomper]

Never even heard of this before, interesting.

[gõrę]

I remember when this happened it was funny news footage of dying Tokyo Fuck heads wish more had died the Fucking rats

[benandtiff]

wow..thats some crazy stuff

[Usotsuki]

Crazy people with delusions of grandeur...

[NEVERBACKZ]

Originally Posted by gõrę ↗

I remember when this happened it was funny news footage of dying Tokyo Fuck heads wish more had died the Fucking rats

[kellyhound]

Japan’s Ministry of Justice has announced that on the morning of July 26 six members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, the organization behind the 1995 Tokyo sarin gas attack, were executed. As is customary in Japan, the method of execution was hanging.

Earlier this month, on July 6, Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara (born Chizuo Matsumoto) and six other members were executed, leading to speculation that the remaining death row cultists would also have their sentences carried out in rapid succession in the near future. The second round of hangings took place at three facilities, with 60-year-old Yasuo Hayashi executed at the Sendai Detention Center, Kazuaki Okasaki (57) and Masato Yokoyama (54) at the Nagoya Detention Center, and Satoru Hashimoto (51), Kenichi Hirose (54), and Toru Toyoda (50) at the Tokyo Detention Center.

In addition to the Tokyo sarin gas attack, which killed 13 and injured more than 6,000, Aum Shinrikyo was found to have been involved in a number of other homicides, including the home invasion murder of a Yokohama lawyer and a deadly gas attack in Matsumoto. Though the Tokyo attack occurred in 1995, Japanese law prevented any executions until any appeals by over 190 people indicted in connection with the incident were completed. That process took over two decades, but finally concluded in January of this year.

The six new executions make for a total of 13 Aum Shinrikyo members put to death, coincidentally the same number of people who were killed by the subway gas attack. No additional members of the cult are facing death sentences.