People in the Tokyo sarin investigation

Aum Shinrikyo members released sarin on five Tokyo subway trains during the morning rush toward Kasumigaseki. Thirteen people were later counted as official dead (twelve at first; one added after a 2008 survey). Thousands sought medical care. This page does not describe the release method.

Asahara Shoko (Matsumoto Chizuo) and a group of senior members were convicted. Asahara’s death sentence became final in 2006; he was executed on 6 July 2018 with other Aum convicts. About 190 members were found guilty in related cases. Status is convicted, not unsolved.

No. It was a domestic criminal and terrorism case against a civilian transport system. It belongs in an investigations family, not in a wars file.

A Japanese new religious movement founded in the 1980s by Matsumoto Chizuo, who took the name Asahara. It mixed Buddhist and Hindu language with apocalyptic teaching and, in its criminal core, organised murders and two sarin attacks. After 2000 the main successor body used the name Aleph.

On 27 June 1994, sarin was used in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, killing eight people. Once linked to Aum, it became the prior chemical crime in the same investigation family as 20 March 1995.

Aum’s religious-corporation status was revoked. The Religious Corporations Act was revised in 1995. The 1999 Act on the Control of Organizations Which Have Committed Acts of Indiscriminate Mass Murder created ongoing surveillance of successor groups.