March 28, 2000 Japanese Cult Lawyer Sentenced, Associated Press
March 20, 2000Japanese cult finds business success despite gas attack, AM/ABC Radio, ABC Online/Australian Broadcasting Corporation (COMPERE: Five years ago more than 5,000 subway commuters in Tokyo were attacked with a nerve gas which left hundreds incapacitated...
PETER MARTIN: ...The Aum Supreme Truth religious sect owned up to it this year and offered to pay compensation...
PETER MARTIN: ...Most of the $100 million Australian Aum made last year came from its excellent computer software businesses...) (Audio included.)
March 20, 2000 Japan Remembers Victims of Attack, Associated Press
A Japanese doomsday cult has said for the first time that its founder was probably involved in one of Japan's worst mass-murder attempts in 1995....
...Compensation
On Monday, Aum reportedly agreed to hand over its facilities in six locations as well as more than 3.3 million yen it received from a small town in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo, for vacating land there as compensation to the victims....
... The reason why I, Joyu, take charge of announcing the view of our religious organization is, I thought, that as the one who had announced our views on the incidents since the 1995 Tokyo subway gas attack, I should publicly correct the wrong views that I have made in the past...I thought it is my responsibility to make an apology and to explain what we are going to do about the incidents....
...Since December 1st of 2000 when we apologized in public for the Aum Shinrikyo-related incidents...
...Setting up a liaison committee for promotion of compensation on Aum-related cases
We decided to set up a liaison committee for promoting compensation for the damages inflicted upon in the Aum-related incidents, and carry out necessary measures to deal with the outcomes of the incidents caused by the former organization, such as compensation to victims, support to accused followers and so on...
January 18, 2000 Japan's doomsday cult announces reorganization, name change, CNN.com
January 10, 2000 The Future of Terror, Newsweek (Includes information on Aum Shinrikyo)
1999
December 2, 1999 Japanese cult apologizes for deadly sarin gas attack, CNN.com
November 22, 1999 Crushing the Cult of Doom, Newsweek
September 30, 1999Former Japan doomsday cult leader sentenced to death, Associated Press via CNN (TOKYO (AP) -- A former leader of Japan's doomsday cult was sentenced to death Thursday, the first such verdict handed out in connection with the Tokyo subway gassing that killed 12 people.
Masato Yokoyama, 35, was sentenced at the Tokyo District Court for sprinkling nerve gas at rush hour in one of Tokyo's busiest subway stations, court officials said...
...Aum Shinri Kyo means Supreme Truth cult.
"We have been advised by many that a change in name would enhance our image," Araki said at a news conference at Tokyo headquarters. The leaders said they had not yet decided on a new name.
The cult will also suspend all public activities, downsize its headquarters in Tokyo and close all its branches nationwide, said the leaders, appearing before reporters in the cult's trademark pajama-like outfits.)
1998
December 24, 1998Japanese sect's nerve gas plant destroyed, BBC (A nerve gas production plant, set up by the Japanese Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth) sect, has been destroyed, according to a United Nations chemical weapons team...) (Photo of Ikuo Hayashi included.)
March 20, 1998Japan marks subway attack anniversary, worries about cult - (TOKYO (CNN) -- People in Japan paused on Friday to mark the third anniversary of the deadly terrorist gassing on Tokyo's subways, while the cult believed responsible for the attack showed signs of a resurgence.
Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto was among those who paid their respects and remembered the day when members of the Aum Shinri Kyo, or Supreme Truth, cult released the nerve gas sarin during a Tokyo morning rush hour. The attack killed 12 people and injured thousands...) (QuickTime Video from March 20, 1995 included.)
March 21, 1996Japan mourns train tragedy, Associated Press via Kansas State Collegian, Kansas State University (TOKYO (AP) -- ...One year ago, on March 20, 1995, nerve gas spread through five subway cars bound for central Tokyo, killing 12 people and sickening more than 5,500. Members of a doomsday cult have confessed to carrying out the attack...
...Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth), the cult whose leader goes on trial next month...)
1995
October 31, 1995U.S. Senate probes doomsday cult link, CNN (...Its main focus: Japan's Aum Shinri Kyo doomsday cult. That group is accused of unleashing a deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways that killed 12 and injured more than 5,000 last March...) (Photos included.)
March 20, 1995Tokyo gas attack, CNN (...police raid the offices of Aum Shinrikyo, a sect that is eventually linked to a series of gas attacks in Japan.) (QuickTime video from TV Asahi included.)
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