Shoko Asahara

That was Om Shinrikyo is the reference.

Shoko Asahara.

Good stuff.

That, by the way, Om Shinrikyo still exists.

There were many, many, many more people they killed on one-offs, too.

Anyway, was there a political motivation behind this attack?

Well, Shoko Asahara did try to get elected, but it was not successful.

It was mainly just he just liked being in charge of people.

The execution for his in 2022 was that of Tomohiro Kato, the perpetrator of Tokyo's 2008 Akebara Massacre, which left seven people dead and ten others injured.

Perhaps the most notable executions in recent years, however, were those of Shoko Asahara, the founder of the Aum Shinriko cult, along with 12 of his followers.

Under Asahara's leadership, the cult terrorized Japan through the late 1980s and into the 1990s, carrying out assassinations, kidnappings, and multiple sarin nerve gas attacks that killed more than 20 people and injured thousands.

When their executions were announced in 2018, public outrage was minimal, with most criticism coming from those who opposed the death penalty itself or Japan's use of long-drop hanging.

Shinji Aoba, the perpetrator of the Kyoto Animation fire, has been on death row for almost three years now.

Shoko Asahara, the man behind the Tokyo sarin gas attacks, was on death row for 14 years before he was finally executed.

One man, Masayasu Fuji, has been on death row for a whopping 49 years.

Only time will tell what happens to Masanori.

I watched the park every day.

At that time, the first trial of Asahara was opened.

It was a trial that received a lot of attention all over Japan.

I wasn't involved in it myself, However, I think there were a lot of scenes where I was directly backing up the people who had caused the incident.

Specifically, I was in charge of writing books and publishing books at the time.

Of course, I didn't write a book about causing an incident, but for example, Asahara is a savior, and Harumageddon is coming, but the only one who can save him is Ohm.

I wrote a lot of things like that.

A lot of believers read what I wrote, and if those believers caused an incident, I would have been the one who caused the incident.