A former top bureaucrat at the transport ministry asked Airport Facilities Co. to name another former ministry official as its president, promising government “support” if it did so.
Japan marks 28 years since the AUM Shinrikyo cult's nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000, at a time when another controversial religious group continues to draw public attention after the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Japan on Monday marked the 28th anniversary of the deadly sarin nerve gas attack carried out by the AUM Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system that left 14 people dead and injured more than 6,000 others.A vigil was held at Kasumigaseki .
A Japanese court on Feb. 28 sentenced a 26-year-old man to three-and-a-half years in prison for attacking another man with sulfuric acid at a Tokyo subway station.