In March 1995, a nerve gas attack by devotees of the Japanese religion Aum Shinrikyo killed twelve and injured thousands of commuters on the Tokyo subway. Police investigations subsequently found that besides this attack, Aum had engaged in criminal...

AUM SHINRIKYŌ, or "Aum Sect of Truth," is a new religious movement based on Buddhism and other Eastern traditions, including Hinduism and Daoism. The movement was founded by Asahara Shōkō, also known as Matsumoto...

Aum Shinrikyo, now known as Aleph, is a Japanese new religious movement organization. The group gained international notoriety in 1995, when it carried out a Sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subways. The name "Aum Shinrikyo" (オウム真理教, Ōmu...

Daniel A. Metraux. Aum Shinrikyo and Japanese Youth. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999. 144 pp. $24.50. THIS SHORT TREATMENT of Aura Shinrikyo, the Japanese new religious movement responsible for releasing satin gas on the Tokyo subway in 1995 and...

Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyo, by IAN READER. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000, 3O4pp. $48.00 (cloth), $23.95 (paper). The September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have given scholars, particularly scholars in...

The Tokyo High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence given to a former cult member for his role in the 1995 nerve gas attack on the city's subway system.Tokyo District Court convicted Seiichi Endo in October 2002 of helping to produce the sarin gas...