Aum Shinrikyo
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Thursday September 20, 2007
Aum Shinrikyo:
Fumihiro Joyu, former spokesman of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, met for the first time Wednesday a man who was falsely branded as a suspect in the 1994 sarin gas attack by Aum members.
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Friday September 14, 2007
Aum Shinrikyo:
According to sources, the daughter secretly made contact with cult members and members of a new group led by former cult leader Fumihiro Joyu after Egawa became her guardian.
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Friday August 24, 2007
Aum Shinrikyo:
The Supreme Court has finalized the death sentence for former AUM Shinrikyo member Masato Yokoyama for his involvement in the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, rejecting an objection raised by his defence about the court’s earlier ruling, judicial sources said Friday.
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Friday July 27, 2007
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The Tokyo District Court on Friday rejected a 50 million yen damages suit filed by two of AUM Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara’s daughters and his lawyers seeking compensation for mental pains they suffered after the Tokyo High Court upheld the death sentence on the cult leader without holding a single hearing.
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Friday July 20, 2007
Aum Shinrikyo:
The Supreme Court of Japan has upheld the death sentence for a former senior AUM Shinrikyo member who, in conspiracy with other cult members, staged the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack that killed 12 people and injured more than 5,000.
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Friday July 13, 2007
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The Tokyo High Court upheld Friday a lower court’s death sentence against former senior AUM Shinrikyo member Tomomasa Nakagawa who was convicted of involvement in the killings of 25 people in various criminal cases from 1989 to 1995, including the cult’s sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway and in Nagano Prefecture.
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More than a dozen death sentences have been handed out to members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, but none of them have been executed. Former Aum guru Shoko Asahara is on death row for 27 killings, including 12 in the subway attack.
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Thursday May 31, 2007
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The 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system left 12 people dead and thousands injured, and the 1994 sarin attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, killed seven and injured 144.
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Friday May 11, 2007
Aum Shinrikyo • Hikari no Wa:
Joyu has claimed his group, Hikari no Wa (Ring of Light), had scorned the influence of Aum founder Shoko Asahara, but the agency found portraits of the guru at several of its facilities during the searches. One official said it indicates the new group is “still under Asahara’s influence.”
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Thursday May 10, 2007
Aum Shinrikyo • Hikari no Wa:
Public safety officials on Thursday conducted their first inspection on the Tokyo headquarters of a cult group led by former AUM Shinrikyo leader Fumihiro Joyu and other relevant places after the group reported their inauguration earlier this week.
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Aum Shinrikyo • Hikari no Wa:
The leader of a group that split off from the doomsday cult behind the deadly 1995 Tokyo subway gassing declared Wednesday that his group no longer follows the teachings of his jailed former guru.
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Tuesday May 8, 2007
Aum Shinrikyo • Hikari no Wa:
An offshoot group of the former Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult formally reported its founding to the government’s Public Security Intelligence Agency on Monday.
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Monday May 7, 2007
Aum Shinrikyo • Hikari no Wa:
Followers of former AUM Shinrikyo spokesman Fumihiro Joyu reported to the Public Security Intelligence Agency on Monday that they have officially organized themselves into a new group consisting of 163 members, the agency said.
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Tuesday March 20, 2007
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Tokyo Metro workers and bereaved family members gathered at six stations on Tuesday, the 12th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult’s deadly gas attacks on the Tokyo subway, to remember the 12 people who died and more than 5,500 who were injured in the attacks.
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Thursday March 8, 2007
Aum Shinrikyo:
The leader of a new group that has split from the doomsday cult that carried out deadly nerve gas attacks on Tokyo’s subways in 1995 said Thursday his group will distance itself from the cult’s jailed founder and his teachings.
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AUM Shinrikyo leader Fumihiro Joyu said Thursday he has formally left the doomsday cult along with his followers and plans to set up a new organization in April or May to signal his intention of fully leaving the influence of AUM founder Shoko Asahara.
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Monday March 5, 2007
Aum Shinrikyo:
The former spokesman for a Japanese doomsday cult responsible for a nerve gas attack on Tokyo subway trains in 1995 is leaving the cult to set up a new group, Japanese media said on Monday.
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Joyu is expected to establish a new organization with about 60 live-in and 200 lay members after leaving the cult this month, but the name of the new organization or when it will be established remain undecided, according to members supporting Joyu.
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The leader of a doomsday cult that released deadly nerve gas into Tokyo’s subway system in 1995 told Japanese authorities Monday he will set up a new group in an effort to distance followers from their jailed founder, an official and media reports said.
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Joyu, 44, and his group are set to quit the cult in mid-March and form a new organization in April or May.
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Saturday March 3, 2007
Aum Shinrikyo:
Conflict inside AUM Shinrikyo has been deepening as the current leader of the cult, which was responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo’s subway system, is preparing to leave the group with his followers while opposition members are set to name a new leader, sources close to the matter said Saturday.
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Monday February 26, 2007
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The current leader of the AUM Shinrikyo cult and his followers are set to announce at a meeting slated for early March that they will withdraw from the cult, founded by former leader Shoko Asahara who is now on death row, group members said Monday.
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Fumihiro Joyu, the onetime spokesman for death cult AUM Shinrikyo, and his followers plan to split from the cult to form his own group, insiders said Monday.
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Thursday February 15, 2007
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The Japan Federation of Bar Associations said Thursday it has decided not to take punitive action against two lawyers for AUM Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara as requested by the Tokyo High Court for allegedly disrupting court procedures by refusing to submit an appeal document by the deadline.
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Friday February 2, 2007
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The Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult may be gone, but it certainly is not forgotten. Now, Aum’s charismatic former spokesman is in the final stages of creating a new religious group based on his own teachings.
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