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Cult member held after 17-year manhunt for suspects in poison gas attack on Tokyo subway that left 13 people dead.
Asia-Pacific Last Modified: 15 Jun 2012 09:58 GMT
Japan's Supreme Court has confirmed the death penalty on a former doomsday cult leader convicted of masterminding a poison gas attack on Tokyo subway tra
Archive Last Modified: 15 Sep 2006 10:34 GMT
The Japanese sect which released Sarin gas into Tokyo's underground system and killed 12 people in 1995 is trying to give itself a makeover in the hope o
Julian Ryall in Tokyo
Archive Last Modified: 20 Nov 2005 05:54 GMT

For the descendant of a cult that tortured its own members and thought nothing of murdering children or releasing sarin nerve gas on packed subway trains, religious group Aleph is faring quite well.

Julian Ryall in Tokyo
Archive Last Modified: 03 Feb 2005 20:18 GMT
A former Japanese cult guru has been sentenced to death for masterminding a 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo subway trains that killed 12 people and sickened thousands.
Archive Last Modified: 27 Feb 2004 07:57 GMT
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