Tokyo subway sarin attack (1995): Raids at Kamikuishiki

Very little about authorship. Open questions are medical aftercare, how successor groups are watched, and how English still says “12 dead” from first-week wires. Keep Tokyo subway sarin attack with “Raids at Kamikuishiki” and 22 from 1995. The story is a rush-hour crime on a civilian metro, investigated by police and tried in ordinary Japanese courts.

Tokyo 20 March 1995 is the type investigation in which arrests, chemistry identifications and a decade of trials left almost no mystery — and still remade how Japan watches religious corporations. 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.

In 1995, Tokyo subway sarin attack keeps 22 and “Raids at Kamikuishiki.” Change the verb when the status changes. Keep Tokyo subway sarin attack with “Raids at Kamikuishiki” and 22 from 1995. 221995

Figures to keep

Year in the file: 1995
Figure that fixes it: 22
Case: Tokyo subway sarin attack
Line that was public: Raids at Kamikuishiki

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