works. In December 1994, police found a pamphlet at the headquarters of the Aum Shinrikyo cult which included a song called "Sarin the Magician," a parody...

stories of fox possession still occur, such as allegations that members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult had been possessed. In modern psychiatry, the term kitsunetsuki...

Ayase and Kita-Ayase. The Chiyoda Line was one of the lines targeted in the Aum sarin gas attack on March 20, 1995. On May 15, 2006, women-only cars were...

Murakami returned to Japan in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake and the Aum Shinrikyo gas attack. He came to terms with these events with his first work...