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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 802–803.
Published: 01 August 1997
... on the Tokyo subway system in March of 1995. That attack resulted in twelve deaths, injured over 5,000 and brought Aum world-wide attention. Less than a decade earlier, the group had begun as a small yogapractitioners circle led by the partially blind Matsumoto Chizuo, later known as Asahara Shoko...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 801–802.
Published: 01 August 1997
... world-wide attention. Less than a decade earlier, the group had begun as a small yogapractitioners circle led by the partially blind Matsumoto Chizuo, later known as Asahara Shoko. In this short study, Ian Reader aims at providing a historical overview of the group, with particular attention...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 803–805.
Published: 01 August 1997
... within Aum's leadership over the group's failure to win large numbers of followers, the dismal loss of Aum's "Party of Truth" in the 1990 election, continuing attacks on Aum in the media, the unchallengeable power Asahara wielded as guru and the increasingly specific nature of his predictions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (3): 1063–1064.
Published: 01 August 2002
... as well as anyone else's, suffusing their consciousness with tapes of Asahara's sermons. There is a comprehensive bibliography appended in addition to the extensive notes accompanying each article. This volume is the most accessible and comprehensive account of the Aum affair and its aftermath that has...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 337–346.
Published: 01 May 2010
... such as Asahara Shoko, the guru who masterminded the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo, or Yoo Young-chul, the South Korean serial killer who confessed to killing 21 people (and to dining on some of them), then many Asians readily lean toward yes. The crimes are unspeakable, and the culpability great. But if one asks...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 319–331.
Published: 01 May 2012
... several crimes, from a 1994 sarin gas attack in Matsumoto to the Tokyo sarin attack. Until the capture of Aum's leader, Asahara Shōkō, about two months later, Japanese society was wrapped in an abnormal fascination with this strange religious group. It is highly symbolic that the two earthquakes...
Journal Article
Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 187–198.
Published: 01 February 2014
..., to Jikōson and Kitamura Sayo during the occupation, and finally Asahara, the leader of Aum shinrikyō, in the 1980s, Dorman observes a deliberate use of the media by religious leaders in order to gain maximum exposure as defenders of public interests and social justice, or to keep company with other media...
