a notorious member of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult that 30 years ago orchestrated a nerve agent attack on Japan's capital.

A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after he slashed the neck of an 87-year-old woman with a knife in a toilet at a train station in Wakayama City. The incident ...

KANAGAWA (TR) – Following the discovery of the body of a 91-year-old woman in her house in Kawasaki City on Monday, two ...

Shizue Takahashi's husband Kazumasa Takahashi was killed in the sarin gas attack in 1995 in Japan Shizue ... the nerve agent sarin on Tokyo's subway, killing 14 people including her husband ...

Several members of a cult that carried out a deadly 1995 sarin attack on Tokyo's subway were executed on Thursday, Japanese media said, weeks after the group's leader was hanged. Shoko Asahara ...

He was mentally sick." The 1995 subway poisonings shocked the world and prompted a reckoning on extremism in Japan, with a crackdown on Asahara's empire that once counted more than 10,000 followers.

Three decades since Shizue Takahashi's husband and a dozen others were killed with a nerve agent on Tokyo's subway, she fears Japan could see a repeat of the doomsday cult attack. Takahashi ...