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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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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Shoko Asahara (category Aum Shinrikyo)
occult subject, little publicity was achieved. Aum Shinrikyo (Japanese: オウム真理教, Hepburn: Oumu Shinrikyō, literally 'Supreme Truth'), currently named Aleph...
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J. Gordon Melton (section Aum Shinrikyo investigation)
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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Ryuho Okawa (section Rivalry with Aum Shinrikyo)
groups culminated in an assassination attempt on Okawa by Aum Shinrikyo in February 1995. Aum members attempted to kill Okawa by putting the nerve agent...
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ISBN 978-0-415-26324-5. Lifton, Robert Jay (2000). Destroying the World to Save it: Aum Shinrikyō, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism. Macmillan Publishers...
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CESNUR (section Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack of 1995)
felt that the scholars' defense of Aum Shinrikyo led to a crisis of confidence in religious scholarship when Aum's culpability was proven. Scholar Ian...
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Yoshihiro Yasuda (section Aum Shinrikyo)
imprisonment. Shoko Asahara, the founder of the religious cult group Aum Shinrikyo, was trialed as the mastermind behind the crimes perpetrated by his...
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Masami Tsuchiya (terrorist) (redirect from Masami Tsuchiya (Aum Shinrikyo))
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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Look up aum, -om, OM, om, or 吽 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Aum (or Om) is an Indian mantra and spiritual symbol. AUM or aum may also refer to:...
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2 January 2023. Robert Jay Lifton. Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyō, Apocalyptic Violence, and The New Global Terrorism. New York: Henry...
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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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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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relatively poor success. The Aum Shinrikyo cult experimented with triethylamine as well. N,N-Diethylaniline was used by Aum Shinrikyo for acid reduction. N...
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1964 – July 26, 2018) was a member of the Japanese doomsday-cult group Aum Shinrikyo who was convicted and executed for murder during the Tokyo subway sarin...
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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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uses include the 2001 anthrax attacks and an incident in 1993 by the Aum Shinrikyo group in Japan. Concentrated anthrax spores, and not necessarily the...
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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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Nuclear terrorism (section Aum Shinrikyo)
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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Lin Tainan (section Similar to Aum Shinrikyo)
Aum Shinrikyo cult. He is of Korean descent, and changed his name to Koike Yasuo after taking his wife's surname. He was a former senior cadre of Aum...
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inwards (such as the Jonestown mass murder) or outwards (such as the Aum Shinrikyo terrorist acts). It sometimes includes a belief in supernatural powers...
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Kazuaki Okazaki (section Joining Aum Shinrikyo)
convicted multiple murderer and former member of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo who co-perpetrated the Sakamoto family murder and another murder in...
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The Story of Kamikuishiki Village (category Aum Shinrikyo)
HappySoft and published by Aum Soft that was released for PC-98 on June 29, 1995. Kamikuishiki Village satirises the Aum Shinrikyo cult and the 1995 Tokyo...
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Hikari no Wa (category Aum Shinrikyo)
manager of the Japanese Buddhist new religious group and doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo. Hikari no Wa's stated goal is not to influence a particular faith,...
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Kiyohide Hayakawa (category Aum Shinrikyo)
the Japanese doomsday-cult group Aum Shinrikyo. Hayakawa was born in Hyōgo Prefecture in 1949. After Aum Shinrikyo adopted a "ministry system", he was...
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Reader (2000). Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyō. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 66–68. ISBN 978-0-8248-2340-5. Richard...
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days of the Cold War, it began to conduct intelligence work on the Aum Shinrikyo after the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, with criticism...
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1947) is a former Aum Shinrikyo member convicted for his participation in the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Prior to joining Aum, Hayashi was a senior...
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(井上嘉浩, Inoue Yoshihiro, December 28, 1969 – July 6, 2018) was a former Aum Shinrikyo leader and terrorist who was executed in Japan in 2018. He was responsible...
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It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism, Robert Lifton applied his original ideas about thought reform to Aum Shinrikyo and...
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