The Public Security Investigation Agency called for a three-year extension of its monitoring activity, saying the Aum Supreme Truth cult still posed a threat to the public...

...The cult, which has changed its name to Aleph -- the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet -- says it is now a benign religious group...)

It says Aum, which renamed itself Aleph in January 2000, "is the terrorist group that places the highest level of importance on developing cyber skills" and "identifies itself as a cyber cult and derives millions of dollars a year from computer retailing."...)

The 44-year-old woman released a statement through her Osaka-based lawyer Sadato Goto and emphasized that she had severed ties with the cult, which now calls itself Aleph...)

Seiichi Endo, 42, was handed the sentence by the Tokyo District Court. He is the ninth member of Aum condemned to hang...)

Now, the 13 have become 100, and Karasuyama is not quite the same. The most active community group in Karasuyama these days is the Anti-Aum Local Residents Conference, made up of 20 groups such as the vendors association and the parent teachers association...)

Seiichi Endo, 42, of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, was sentenced to die for helping produce the deadly sarin gas used in the March 1995 attack, which also sickened thousands of people, Tokyo District Court official Emi Shimoyama said...)

The sarin gas attack, orchestrated by a cult called Aum Shinri-kyo or -- Aum Supreme Truth -- killed 11 people and injured more than 5,500...)

On March 20, 1995, Aum unleashed sarin nerve gas on Tokyo commuters, killing 12 people and sickening thousands in one of the worst acts of urban terrorism until the Sept. 11 attacks...)

On March 20, 1995, Aum unleashed sarin nerve gas on Tokyo commuters, killing 12 people and sickening thousands in one of the worst acts of urban terrorism until the Sept. 11 attacks...)

Eriko Iida, 41, has completed the 6 1/2 year sentence she was handed after a conviction for illegal confinement resulting in the death of notary public Kiyoshi Kariya.

Iida, who has indicated she will leave the group responsible for the 1995 Tokyo subway lethal gassing...)

...Kono grabbed national headlines in 1994 when police treated him as a suspect in the sarin nerve gas attack in his hometown of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, that left seven people dead and sickened 600...

...After it became clear that Aum Shinrikyo was responsible for the gas attack and other crimes...)

The talk was given by Ian Reader, a professor of religious studies at Lancaster University in England, as part of the "Promise and Peril" lecture series.

Aum Shinrikyo was behind most terrorist attacks in Japan in March 1995...

...In March 1995, they released sarin, a poisonous nerve gas, into the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 and injuring thousands. The group, which still exists today, has changed its name and wants to be regarded as a positive group that has important things to say, according to Reader...)

...Kei Kumai...

...In "Nihon no Kuroi Natsu (Darkness in the Light)," Kumai takes up the true story of the trial by media of an innocent man in the Matsumoto sarin poisoning case...

...This hero is Toshio Kanbe (Akira Terao)...

...The victims were innocents, who deserved to have the real culprits found out, as in the end they were: the Aum Shinrikyo cult...

...a veteran Japanese director will receive a meritorious award for his latest film on the 1994 fatal nerve-gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, for which members of Aum Shinrikyo stand accused.

Kei Kumai, 70, will receive the Berlinale Camera award at a ceremony Thursday for "Darkness in the Light."

The movie is the story of a man falsely accused of masterminding the attack, in which seven people were killed...