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    Arefu), better known by their former name Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教, Oumu Shinrikyō, literally 'religion of Aum Supreme Truth'), is a Japanese new religious...
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  • Shoko Asahara (category Aum Shinrikyo)
    was the founder and leader of the Japanese doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo. He was convicted of masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the...
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    Tokyo subway sarin attack (category Attacks by Aum Shinrikyo)
    on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo. In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on three...
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    Sakamoto family murder (category Attacks by Aum Shinrikyo)
    November 5, 1989), a lawyer working on a class action lawsuit against Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult in Japan, was murdered, along with his wife Satoko...
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  • Tsuchiya Masami, January 6, 1965 – July 6, 2018) was a senior member of Aum Shinrikyo, responsible for the deaths of a combined 19 people and for the production...
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  • Banjawarn Station (category Aum Shinrikyo)
    station. In the 1990s Banjawarn was owned by the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, and following the Tokyo subway attack was the subject of an Australian...
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  • Matsumoto sarin attack (category Attacks by Aum Shinrikyo)
    attack was an attempted assassination perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan on the night of...
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  • Fumihiro Joyu (category Aum Shinrikyo)
    spokesperson and public relations manager of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, and served as the de facto chief of the organization from 1999 to 2007...
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    gas attack on the Tokyo subway, the group responsible for the attack, Aum Shinrikyo, contacted an American group known as AWARE (Association of World Academics...
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    launching such a devastating attack within Russia. The Japanese terror cult Aum Shinrikyo, which used sarin gas in the 1995 Tokyo Metro attack, has also tried...
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