Around a quarter of victims who responded to a survey about posttraumatic stress linked to their experience of the Aum ...

Nakagawa joined Aum Shinrikyo as a medical student and became a personal doctor and close aide to the cult's leader. He was held responsible for the deaths of 25 people in 11 different incidents.

Exclusive: Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto co-direct the feature about a doomsday cult that unleashed deadly nerve gas in the Tokyo subway in 1995.

A former National Police Agency executive regrets failing to raid Aum Shinrikyo bases before the doomsday cult mounted its ...

Tokyo, March 14 (Jiji Press)--The son of a victim in an abduction case involving the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult wants perpetrators to continue feeling remorse 30 years on. "There are two kinds of ...

Aum Shinrikyo clearly emerged on the radar of the Criminal Affairs Bureau after eight people were killed and more than 600 were injured in a sarin gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on ...

psychotic doomsday day cult in Japan known as Aum Shinrikyo. This first premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival a few years ago, and is finally getting released in the US this spring.

An anti-terrorist drill is conducted at a Tokyo Metro facility in Tokyo on Thursday, ahead of the 30th anniversary on March ...

The chilling legacy of doomsday cult-turned-domestic terrorists Aum Shinrikyo is now being captured on the 30th anniversary of their Tokyo attack. Documentary “AUM: The Cult at the End of the World,” ...