The worst terrorist attack in Japan's modern history happened 30 years ago, on March 20, 1995, during the morning rush hour on the Tokyo subway system. Members of a violent cult called Aum Shinrikyo ...

Successor group Aleph's recruitment tactics are characterized by the concealment of its name and the use of conspiracy theories.

Survivors and victims' families are seeking justice thirty years after the fatal sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo's subway ...

The disasters struck a Japan already reeling economically. After decades as a powerhouse, it suffered a terrific crash of ...

The son of a victim in an abduction case involving the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult wants perpetrators to continue feeling remorse 30 years on. "There are two kinds of atonement," said Minoru ...

Before that, a glass screen had always separated her from her death-row spouse Tomomitsu Niimi, a notorious member of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult that 30 years ago orchestrated a nerve agent ...

Just as she has done on the anniversary of her husband’s death for the last 29 years, Shizue Takahashi will on Thursday morning take a rush-hour subway train to Kasumigaseki Station in the heart ...

Aum Shinrikyo later disbanded and was reformed under the Aleph name. Under the judgment against Aleph, the agency was asked to disclose the group’s assets situation and reveal information ...

Japan on Thursday marked the 30th anniversary of the nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo ...

The Cult at the End of the World analyzes the birth and death of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo apocalypse cult that conducted the fatal 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack. It resulted in the deaths of 14 ...

Russell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. It was a Monday morning like any other in mid-March 1995. But then again, that’s ...