[30] Toyoda was executed by hanging at Tokyo Detention Center on 26 July 2018.[31]. },{ }, The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States (a neutral country at the time) against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. iasLog("criterion : cdo_c = " + ["sports_sporting_goods", "beauty_health_fitness", "jobs_education_resumes", "law_government_military"]); "sign-up": "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/auth/signup?rid=READER_ID", Murakami later added a second part to the {code: 'ad_topslot_b', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_topslot', adUnitPath: '/23202586/cdo_topslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[728, 90]] } }, The last time Sagamihara made global headlines was in 2012 when Naoko Kikuchi, a member of the Japanese doomsday cult responsible for the 1995 nerve gas attack on … var mapping_topslot_a = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([746, 0], []).addSize([0, 550], [[300, 250]]).addSize([0, 0], [[300, 50], [320, 50], [320, 100]]).build(); { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654174' }}, ga('create', 'UA-31379-3',{cookieDomain:'dictionary.cambridge.org',siteSpeedSampleRate: 10}); } Sitting close to the door, he set the sarin packets on the floor. filter: 'include' { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_SR' }}, pbjs.que = pbjs.que || []; { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654156' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446382' }}, During his drop, Yokoyama left one packet fully intact, while the other packet was only punctured once (and with a small hole), resulting in the sarin being released relatively slowly. priceGranularity: customGranularity, dfpSlots['houseslot_a'] = googletag.defineSlot('/2863368/houseslot', [300, 250], 'ad_houseslot_a').defineSizeMapping(mapping_houseslot_a).setTargeting('sri', '0').setTargeting('vp', 'mid').setTargeting('hp', 'right').setCategoryExclusion('house').addService(googletag.pubads()); [24], Kikuchi was acquitted in 2015 on the grounds that she was unaware of the plot.[25]. Yokoyama was sentenced to death in 1999. cmpApi: 'iab', This attack killed one person and seriously injured 532 others. [35] Kitamura also aided cult fugitive Takeshi Matsumoto hide from justice between the months of March and April 1995 for the crime of kidnapping. After Sugimoto escorted him to Ueno Station, Hayashi boarded the third car of southwest-bound 07:43 Hibiya Line train number A720S and dropped his sarin packets to the floor. He was able to inject himself with the antidote (atropine sulphate) and was rushed to the Aum-affiliated Shinrikyo Hospital in Nakano for treatment. if(window.isCCPAMode()) After arriving at 9:09 am, the train once again began to make its way back to Ikebukuro as the B901. params: { Due to fears that armed cult members might resist the raid, the 1st Airborne Brigade of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force was stationed nearby to provide support if needed.[38][39]. The judge also highlighted his self-righteous motive for his crimes and pronounced the sentencing saying that: Though the defendant knew the deadliness of the nerve gas, he took part without hesitation, believing the attack was an "act of salvation"[35], After the verdict was read, his lawyer said that Kitamura was still under Asahara's spell and that that made him a victim of the cult as well but also said that the court had dismissed this point adding that he would discuss with him whether to appeal to the higher courts. [citation needed], Asahara had experienced delusions of grandeur as early as 1985 – while meditating, he claims that the god Shiva had been revealed to him, and had appointed him 'Abiraketsu no Mikoto' ('The god of light who leads the armies of the gods'), who was to build the Kingdom of Shambhala, a utopian society made up of those who had developed 'psychic powers'. if(success && (tcData.eventStatus === 'useractioncomplete' || tcData.eventStatus === 'tcloaded')) { iasLog("__tcfapi removeEventListener", success); 'max': 3, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_Billboard' }}, Swim (Live) 11. 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[citation needed], After the destruction of the illegal weapon stockpiles, the cult relied on 'mainstream' methods to attract other members – this included frequent television appearances by Asahara, as well as the setting up of the 'Aum Shinrikyo broadcasting' radio station in Russia in April 1992. 'min': 8.50, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [300, 50] }}, Attempted assassination of Hiroyuki Nagaoka, head of the 'Aum Shinrikyo Victim's Group' – Nagaoka was hospitalized for several weeks. { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a9690ab01717182962182bb50ce0007', pos: '8a9699e70178783c43f941652a820248' }}, defaultGdprScope: true, After releasing the sarin, Hirose himself showed symptoms of sarin poisoning. addPrebidAdUnits(pbAdUnits); We waited in line for about 2.5 hours but the ride was so fun! bidders: '*', Attack on Titan (Japanese: 進撃の巨人, Hepburn: Shingeki no Kyojin, lit. expires: 365 Katsuya Takahashi was Toru Toyoda's getaway driver. Original Japanese version with English subtitles. The leader also wanted to start a Third World War. Japanese Here's a compressed Blu-ray rip of the original Japanese version of Ishiro Honda's "ALL MONSTERS ATTACK" (aka "GODZILLA'S REVENGE"). [7], The drastically increasing popularity of the group also saw an increase in violent behaviour from its members. type: "cookie", Two vinyl bags – one containing sulfuric acid and the other containing sodium cyanide – were found, on fire, in the toilet of a subway station. [1], Following an accident at Satyan-7 the next month (and complaints from the surrounding communities), a police investigation revealed methylphosphonic acid and isopropyl methylphosphonic acid – the former being a degradation product of sarin, and the latter being a definitive signature of both sarin production and of failures in production. ga('require', 'displayfeatures'); Isoroku Yamamoto, perhaps Japan’s greatest strategist and the officer who would contrive the surprise air attack on U.S. naval forces at Pearl Harbor, is born on April 4, 1884. [citation needed], The train proceeded down the line with the punctured bag of sarin leaking until 4 stops later at Kasumigaseki Station. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_HDX' }}, [citation needed]. About a week later, on 27 June, 30L of sarin was loaded onto a truck equipped with a fan, heater, and pump – six members, pre-administered with sarin antidotes and wearing improvised gas masks, began the propagation of sarin at around 10:40pm, spraying for around 10–20 minutes. Among these were passengers on other trains, subway workers and health care workers. Despite showing confidence in their ability to gain seats in the diet, the party received only 1,783 votes; the failure to achieve power legitimately, blamed by Asahara on an external conspiracy propagated by "Freemasons and Jews", caused him to order the cult to produce botulinum and phosgene in order to overthrow the Japanese government. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_Billboard' }}, [59], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}35°41′22″N 139°41′30″E / 35.68944°N 139.69167°E / 35.68944; 139.69167, Defense offered by Japanese and American scholars. 'min': 0, [55][56], In May and June 2012, the last two of the fugitives wanted in connection with the attack were arrested in the Tokyo and Kanagawa area. At some point in 1992, Asahara published Declaring Myself the Christ, in which he identified with the "Lamb of God". Warnings of an inevitable Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were ignored for almost 30 years. He was executed by hanging at Osaka Detention Center on 6 July 2018[28] with six others of those principally involved. googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_dc", "english-japanese"); Japan does not announce dates of executions, which are by hanging, in advance of them being carried out. Two re-trial appeals were declined by the appellate court. 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[31], Kiyotaka Tonozaki, a high school graduate who joined the group in 1987, was a member of the group's Ministry of Construction, and served as Yokoyama's getaway driver. The day after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. … The First Invasion, 1274 From the port of Masan in southern Korea, the Mongols and their subjects launched a step-wise attack on Japan in the autumn of 1274. St. Luke's International Hospital in Tsukiji was one of very few hospitals in Tokyo at that time to have the entire building wired and piped for conversion into a "field hospital" in the event of a major disaster. if(window.geofeedData != null) { { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '387232' }}, [1][40] var pbMobileHrSlots = [ [b], Aum Shinrikyo was founded in 1984 as a yoga and meditation class, initially known as Oumu Shinsen no Kai (オウム神仙の会, "Aum Mountain Hermits’ Society"), by pharmacist Chizuo Matsumoto. As members became disillusioned with the group (following contact with the outside world made during the election campaign) and defected, an attitude among the remaining members that 'the unenlightened' did not deserve salvation became accepted. { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: '8a9694390178783c4ccf416425e10264' }}, iasLog("exclusion label : mcp"); When the train reached the next station, he fled the scene with Tonozaki, leaving the sarin packets on the train car. Scrape (Live) 2. // FIXME: (temporary) - send ad requests only if PlusPopup is not shown [35][36], Kitamura is a native of Aichi Prefecture and joined Aum Shinrikyo in the late 1980s after reading a book written by leader Shoko Asahara. storage: { Medical personnel at the given hospital had not been given prior notice of the attack and were consequently clueless regarding what treatment Hirose needed. 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Five stops later, at 8:38 am, the train reached Ogikubo Station, the end of the Marunouchi Line, all while passengers continued to board the train. { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654156' }}, "authorizationFallbackResponse": { syncDelay: 3000 [35], In January 2002, the Tokyo High Court upheld his sentence, which he called "too harsh" given his role in the attack. As of December 2009, 5,259 people have applied for benefits under the law. bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776160', position: 'atf' }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_Billboard' }}, Hirose was thirty years old at the time of the attacks. The cult's headquarters in Tokyo was raided by police on May 16, 1995. {code: 'ad_topslot_b', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_topslot', adUnitPath: '/23202586/cdo_topslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[728, 90]] } }, 'cap': true Posted On March 11, 2021 Crime, Civil Rights, Community News, Politics. [44] Using stronger words, Canadian scholar Stephen A. Kent chastised both Lewis and Melton for having put the reputation of the whole category of scholars of new religious movements at risk. bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776156', position: 'atf' }}, A 2008 law enacted by the Japanese government authorized payments of damages to victims of the gas attack, because the attack was directed at the government of Japan. [12], Despite mouse bioassays run by Tomomasu Nakagawa (another cult member assisting Endo) returning no toxic effects, in April 1990 the crude broth was loaded into three trucks equipped with custom spray devices, which was to be sprayed at two US naval bases, Narita airport, the Diet building, the Imperial Palace, and the headquarters of a rival religious group. Hirose was later sentenced to death by hanging for his role in the attack. Both packets were successfully broken, and all 900 millilitres (32 imp fl oz; 30 US fl oz) of sarin was released onto the floor of the train. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195466', size: [728, 90] }}, [41], Surveys of the victims in 1998 and 2001 showed that many were still suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Somerville sailed on 30 March in expectation of an attack on 1 April, and deployed his fleet in a patrol area 100 miles (160 km) south of Ceylon. gdpr: { Hayashi made the most punctures of any of the perpetrators. googletag.pubads().disableInitialLoad(); { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [300, 250] }}, dfpSlots['leftslot'] = googletag.defineSlot('/23202586/cdo_leftslot', [[120, 600], [160, 600]], 'ad_leftslot').defineSizeMapping(mapping_leftslot).setTargeting('sri', '0').setTargeting('vp', 'top').setTargeting('hp', 'left').addService(googletag.pubads()); { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: '8a9691010178783c4831416439820259' }}, 'increment': 1, googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_pc", "dictionary"); The attack on Noriko Nasu in the Chinatown/International District was caught on surveillance video. }); { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195464', size: [300, 600] }}, pbjs.que.push(function() { Shimada later apologized, claiming he had been deceived by Aum, but his and others' statements damaged the public image of scholars of religion in general in Japan. Police activity continued throughout the summer, and over 200 members were arrested, including Asahara. } else if(window.isCCPAMode()) { [citation needed], Similarly, the Aum anthrax program was a failure – despite having access to a sympathiser outside of the group who could acquire anthrax spores, the strain received by the group was a Sterne vaccine strain incapable of causing harm. { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971065', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, Hirose teamed up with getaway driver Kōichi Kitamura. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_SR' }}, [44], In May 1995, Aum contacted an American group known as AWARE (Association of World Academics for Religious Education), founded by American scholar James R. Lewis, claiming that the human rights of its members were being violated. Ceylon air defences and forces went on alert, with land-based aerial reconnaissance concentrating on the southeast, where the Japanese were expected to approach to launch strikes at … { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_leftslot' }}, Hirose's clumsy release of the sarin resulted in him accidentally poisoning himself, but he was able to administer an antidote stored in Kitamura's car. After initial research (done at Tsukuba University, where he had previously studied chemistry), he suggested to Hideo Murai – a senior Aum advisor who had tasked him with researching chemical weapons in November 1992, out of fear that the cult would soon be attacked with them – that the most cost-effective substance to synthesize would be sarin. var mapping_houseslot_b = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([963, 0], []).addSize([0, 0], [300, 250]).build(); [29] He was later sentenced to death. }, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195466', size: [728, 90] }}, var pbAdUnits = getPrebidSlots(curResolution); { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195466', size: [728, 90] }}, Citizens lodged complaints about foul smells several times, with the cult claiming that the US Army had assaulted the complex with poison gas. { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654208' }}, expires: 60 { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_leftslot' }}, The attack was directed against trains passing through Kasumigaseki and Nagatachō,[3] where the Diet (Japanese parliament) is headquartered in Tokyo. var mapping_leftslot = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([1063, 0], [[120, 600], [160, 600], [300, 600]]).addSize([963, 0], [[120, 600], [160, 600]]).addSize([0, 0], []).build(); { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_topslot' }}]}, { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_rightslot' }}]}, [33] His appeal was rejected by the Tokyo High Court in September 2016. Katsuya Takahashi was arrested soon afterward. Asahara had been made aware of a police raid scheduled for March 22 and had planned the Tokyo subway attack in order to hinder police investigations into the cult and perhaps spark the apocalypse they believed in. }, [citation needed], In the summer of 1993, Endo attempted a different strategy – by desiccating the slurry, the B. anthracis spores could be spread as a powder, rather than through spraying – this was achieved with a crude hot air dryer. [6], In August 1989, the group was granted official religious corporation status by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, giving it privileges such as tax breaks and freedom from governmental oversight. [36][37], Following the attack, Japanese police raided Aum Shinrikyo facilities and arrested members. [42] Later investigation showed that Aum not only created the sarin used in the subway attacks, but had committed previous chemical and biological weapons attacks, including a previous attack with sarin that killed eight people and injured 144. On the way to Shinjuku Station, Tonozaki stopped to allow Yokoyama to buy a copy of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, to wrap the two sarin packets. Trench (Live) 3. In one survey, twenty percent of 837 respondents complained that they felt insecure when on a train, while ten percent answered that they tried to avoid any nerve-attack related news. The attack was originally believed to be an explosion and was thus labeled as such in media reports. [citation needed]. The entire ordeal resulted in one passenger's death with 358 being seriously injured. Seiichi Endo - one of the members tasked with acquiring botulinum toxin - collected soil samples from the Ishikari River, and attempted to produce the toxin using three 10,000 litre capacity fermenters.
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