Tokyo subway sarin attack (1995): Tokyo subway attack

Tokyo subway sarin attack stops where the public record stops. The year is 1995, the line is “Tokyo subway attack,” the figure is 20. A drama’s dialogue is not the file. After July 2018 the lead defendants are dead. Successor-group watch is the remaining state file.

Five coordinated releases occurred on Teito Rapid Transit Authority (now Tokyo Metro) lines during the Monday rush, aimed at trains passing Kasumigaseki, the ministry quarter. Station staff and passengers were among the dead. Hospitals treated thousands for exposure. The page stops at that public sequence.

Sarin had already been used in Matsumoto on 27 June 1994. That prior case, once it was linked, showed Aum as a group willing to use a banned chemical agent against a domestic population. The subway attack is therefore the second dated sarin crime in the file, not an isolated experiment.

Police raided Aum facilities from 22 March 1995, including the Kamikuishiki complex in Yamanashi. They arrested more than 200 members over the following months. Asahara was found at Kamikuishiki on 16 May. Seized materials and later confessions built a trial record that English reporters summarised as a “cult laboratory” without needing a recipe.

Say the name, the year, then the figure. For Tokyo subway sarin attack, “Tokyo subway attack” is the name of 20.1995

Figures to keep

Year in the file: 1995
Figure that fixes it: 20
Case: Tokyo subway sarin attack
Line that was public: Tokyo subway attack

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