The Sarin Nerve Gas Attack Affair ―Background Factors in Japan and it′s Lesson―

In addition to Tokyo's subway affair, AUM commited the following crimes. * The murder, in November '89, of a lawyer who was preparing a case against AUM and his wife and 1 year aid son. * The sarin nerve gas attack that killed 7 people and injured 600 others in the residential area in the city of Matsumoto in June '94. * Abducting, confinig and killing of a Tokyo notory public who tried to make his sister leave AUM, in February '95. * Attempted assasination of Director General of the Natinal police agency, in March '95. * Some 300 followers are missing and about a dozen are said to have died during their training for AUM, for instance by overexposure to hot water.