Aum Shinrikyo - Aum Shinrikyo Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教) (or Aum Supreme Truth) is the name of a terrorist cult operating in Japan. The cult is now known by the name Aleph. The group is most famous for their 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system. The group is also known as A.I.C. Sogo Kenkyusho or A.I.C. Comprehensive Research Institute. Description The cult was established in 1987 by Shoko Asahara. Aum is a sanskrit word meaning "powers of destruction and creation in the universe," and Shinrikyo means "teaching of the supreme truth". Approved as a religious entity in 1989 under Japanese law, the group ran candidates in a Japanese parliamentary election in 1989 through Shinrito, the political arm of the group. The group did very poorly in the elections..
Haruki Murakami - to live in Europe and America, but returned to Japan in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake and the Aum Shinrikyo gas attack, both of which he wrote about later. Murakami's fiction, which is often criticised for being "pop" literature by Japan's literary establishment, is humorous and surreal, and at the same time reflects an essential loneliness and longing for love in a way that has touched readers in the West as well as in East Asia. Bibliography Hear the Wind Sing (1979) Pinball, 1973 (1980) A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) Norwegian Wood (1987) Dance, Dance, Dance (1988) South of the Border, West of the Sun (1992) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994) The Elephant Vanishes (1996?) Underground (1999) Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) After.
Heisei - 38 years, was ousted by a coalition led by Hosokawa Morihiro. In 1995, there was a large earthquake in Kobe. The same year, there was a sarin gas terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway system by the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo. See also Japanese era name < Showa period History of Japan.
Foreign Terrorist Organizations - intent to engage in terrorist activity or terrorism. The organization’s terrorist activity or terrorism must threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security (national defense, foreign relations, or the economic interests) of the United States. Legal Ramifications of Designation It is unlawful for a person in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to knowingly provide "material support or resources" to a designated FTO. (The term "material support or resources" is defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2339A(b) as "currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safehouses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel, transportation, and other physical assets, except medicine or religious materials.) Representatives and members of a designated FTO, if.
Distance (movie) - Susumu, and Natsukawa Yui. Plot Summary Members of a cult modelled on Aum Shinrikyo sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members (the credited cast minus Asano) of the perpetrators meet at the lake to observe the anniviersary of their loved ones' deaths. While there their car is stolen. They meet a former member of the cult who had trained for the water sabotage attack but defected last minute. He leads them to the cabin he's currently holed up in, where he and the deceased cult members had trained for the attack, and they pass the night reminiscing about those they'd known and lost, shown cinematically through improvised dialogues and flashbacks. Sakata, the surviving cult and last to see most of the.
1987 - PC Engine is released in Japan November 5 - Apartheid: In South Africa, Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison. He had been sentenced to life for treason against the white minority South Africa government. November 7 - In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. November 8 - Enniskillen massacre: In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead, killing eleven people. November 18 - Kings Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross. November 18 - Iran-Contra scandal: The United States Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra affair, stating that US.
Aleph - of the most advanced systems for inductive logic programming. (Not to be confused with Alef, the concurrent programming language of choice for Plan 9) Aleph is also the name of a religion in Japan, formerly known as Aum Shinrikyo. Aleph is also the title of a short story by author Georg Brandes. Aleph One is a ongoing project related to the computer game Marathon. It can be found at http://source.bungie.org The Aleph is also the title of a short story by author Jorge Luis Borges.
Sarin - Regular production ceased in the US by 1956. Recent history In 1970, according to a report by CNN and Time Magazine in 1999, a covert US operation called Operation Tailwind included the deliberate gassing of US troops in Laos who had defected. The report caused a scandal, and The Pentagon launched a purportedly independent study which found that no gassing of US soldiers took place. After an internal investigation, both CNN and Time Magazine retracted the story and fired the reporters responsible for it. In 1988, Iraq used Sarin against the Kurds and in 1995, Sarin was used in a subway attack in Tokyo by Aum Shinrikyo..
Shoko Asahara - known as Shoko Asahara, is the founder of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo (Aum Supreme Truth) cult. Partially blind since birth, Matsumoto was enrolled in a school for the blind as a child. He graduated in 1977 and after failing the entrance exam for Tokyo University he turned to the study acupuncture and Chinese medicine. He married in 1978. In the early 1980s he joined Agonshu, a 'new age' group. In 1987 he claimed to have experienced a revelation while in India, he also claimed to have found he had unique DNA. He changed his name to Asahara Shoko and formed his own group Aum Shinrikyo in 1987 using a mix of Buddhist and Hindu concepts for his belief system. The group was granted legal recognition as a religious group, after an.
Steve Booth - contributed controversial articles to Green Anarchist which appeared to laud indiscriminate violence against members of the public (such as the Aum Shinrikyo sarin attacks on the Tokyo Tube) as 'liberatory'. Starting in 1995, the Hampshire Police under 'Operation Washington' began a series of at least 56 raids, which eventually resulted in the August to November 1997 Portsmouth trial of Green Anarchist editors Booth, Saxon Wood, Noel Molland and Paul Rodgers, as well as Animal Liberation Front Press Officer Robin Webb and Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group newsletter editor Simon Russell. The defendants organised the GANDALF Defence campaign. Three of the editors of Green Anarchist, Noel Molland, Saxon Wood and Booth were jailed for 'conspiracy to incite'. Eventually, all three were released on appeal [1] In early 2001, Steve Booth broke with.
Religions of Japan - it has 1.4 million adherents, which includes a high percentage of important persons in education and public affairs. New religions Beyond the three traditional religions, many Japanese today are turning to a great variety of popular religious movements normally lumped together under the name "new religions." These religions draw on the concept of Shinto, Buddhism, and folk superstition and have developed in part to meet the social needs of elements of the population. The officially recognized new religions number in the hundreds, and total membership is reportedly in the tens of millions. The biggest new religion is Soka Gakkai, a Buddhist sect, founded in 1930. The Komei party is of this faith. It is both in national and local assemblies and has a huge influence on politics as it is a.
Religious terrorism - Examples of Religious Terrorist Groups: al-Qaeda Hamas Hizballah Aum Shinrikyo Islamic Movement of Central Asia Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Moro Islamic Liberation Front The Order Palestinian Islamic Jihad Egyptian Islamic Jihad Armed Islamic Group Salafi Group for Call and Combat See also: Terrorism.
Nerve agent - combat. At that time, the Germans believed that the Allies also knew of these compounds, assuming that because these compounds were not discussed in the Allies' scientific journals, information about them was being suppressed. In actuality, the Allies first learned about these agents when shells filled with them were captured towards the end of the war.[1] Nerve agents have not been used on large scales in wars, though there have been persistent reports of entire Kurdish villages in Iraq being killed by the use of nerve agents during the 1980s. Although in the event, nerve agents were not actually used by Iraq in the Gulf War, the widespread use of anticholinergic drugs as a prophylaxis against nerve gas attack has been proposed as a possible cause of Gulf war syndrome One.
Murakami Haruki - live in Europe and North America, but returned to Japan in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake and the Aum Shinrikyo gas attack, both of which he wrote about later. Murakami's fiction, which is often criticised for being "pop" literature by Japan's literary establishment, is humorous and surreal, and at the same time reflects an essential loneliness and longing for love in a way that has touched readers in the West as well as in East Asia. Bibliography Hear the Wind Sing (1979) Pinball, 1973 (1980) A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) Norwegian Wood (1987) Dance, Dance, Dance (1988) South of the Border, West of the Sun (1992) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994) The Elephant Vanishes (1996?) Underground (1999) Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) After.
Murayama Tomiichi - was criticised for not dealing quickly with the earthquake of Kobe, that hit Japan on January 17, 1995. The terrorist attack in the Tokyo subways by the Aum Shinrikyo cult happened also during his government. He apologised for the atrocities made during World War II. The article is originally from OpenHistory. Preceded by: Hata Tsutomu Prime ministers of Japan Succeeded by: Hashimoto Ryutaro.
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Gayatrimantra - of a household is expected to repeat this verse (with the assistance of a brahmin), at least 2,400,000 times. In Sanskrit: Aum Bhu Bhuva Svah Tat Savitur Varenyam Bhargo Devasya Dheemahee Dhiyo Yo Nah Prachodayaat In English: The primordial creative sound The three worlds: earth, atmosphere, and heaven Adoration of the splendor that radiates from the Divine illumination A prayer for liberation through the light of the universal intelligence.
Green Anarchist - Hunt wrote an editorial which expressed support for British troops in the Gulf War and extolled the virtues of patriotism. Shortly afterwards he left to start another magazine Alternative Green, which continued to promote his own particular view of 'Nationalistic Anarchism'. Into the Nineties During the 1990s Green Anarchist came under the helm of an editorial collective that included Paul Rodgers, Steve Booth and others, during which period the publication became increasingly aligned with primitivism, an anti-technological philosophy advocated by John Zerzan. During this period the magazine expressed sympathy for the Unabomber actions of Ted Kaczynski and published a notorious article entitled "The Irrationalists" that apparently supported the Sarin gas attacks carried out by the Tokyo based Aum cult. This once again alienated much of the UK anarchist movement, and led.
1995 - economy. February 15 - Hacking: Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged him with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computers systems. February 17 - Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence. February 21 - Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. February 26 - United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings PLC collapses after a securities broker lost $1.4 billion by gambling on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. March 2 - In Moscow, Russian anti-corruption journalist Vladislav Listyev is killed by a gunman. March 2 - Nick Leeson is arrested for his.
Botulin toxin - attacked with a toxin aerosol would be safe to enter within a day or so. There are no documented cases of the toxin actually being used in warfare. There has been concern over the use of botulin toxin as a terrorist weapon, but it appears to not be ideal for this purpose. The vials of toxin used therapeutically are considered impractical for use by terrorists because each vial has only an extremely small fraction of the lethal dose for humans. The toxin's properties did not escape the attention of the Aum Supreme Truth cult in Japan, who actually set up a plant for bulk production of this agent, though their terrorist and assassination attacks used the nerve agent Sarin instead, it being easier to disperse and faster acting. External FDA: A.
