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    The Tokyo subway sarin attack (地下鉄サリン事件, Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken, "Subway Sarin Incident") was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on 20 March 1995...
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  • was perpetrated nine months before the better-known Tokyo subway sarin attack. The sarin attack occurred in a quiet residential area in the city of Matsumoto...
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    1969) and Sugamo Station. 1991: The Tokyo Metro Namboku Line opens. 1995: On 20 March, the Tokyo subway sarin attack occurred on the Marunouchi, Hibiya...
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    carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was found to have been responsible for the Matsumoto sarin attack the previous year. The...
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  • Shoko Asahara (category Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators)
    Aum Shinrikyo. He was convicted of masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and was also involved in several other crimes. Asahara was...
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  • Ikuo Hayashi (category Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators)
    Shinrikyo member convicted for his participation in the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Prior to joining Aum, Hayashi was a senior medical doctor...
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  • Kenichi Hirose (category Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators)
    Shinrikyo who was convicted and executed for murder during the Tokyo subway sarin attack. Born in 1964, Hirose was an outstanding student in his early...
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    Socialist Party on May 10. On March 20, 1995, the Tokyo subway sarin attack occurred, the deadliest terrorist attack in Japan as defined by modern standards. Murayama...
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  • Tomomitsu Niimi (category Tokyo Subway sarin attack perpetrators)
    Shinrikyo member convicted for his participation in the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway and a number of other crimes. He was Aum's "minister of internal...
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    a testing ground. 1995: Tokyo subway sarin attack; the Aum Shinrikyo sect released an impure form of sarin in the Tokyo Metro. Twelve people died, and...
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