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Victim compensation and medical follow-up produced the 2008 survey that raised the official dead from 12 to 13. English memory rarely mentions that survey; it still prints “12 dead” from 1995 wires. Dated official figures matter here as much as in a disaster file.
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Tokyo subway sarin attack · paras 1
The Religious Corporations Act was amended in December 1995 to strengthen official scrutiny of religious juridical persons. Separate chemical-weapons and anti-terrorism adjustments followed in Japanese statute through the late 1990s. The 1999 control act is the specific organisational tool aimed at Aum’s remaining structures.
Tokyo subway sarin attack · paras 2
Victim compensation and medical follow-up produced the 2008 survey that raised the official dead from 12 to 13. English memory rarely mentions that survey; it still prints “12 dead” from 1995 wires. Dated official figures matter here as much as in a disaster file.
Tokyo subway sarin attack · lede
Tokyo 20 March 1995 is the type investigation in which arrests, chemistry identifications and a decade of trials left almost no mystery — and still remade how Japan watches religious corporations.
Tokyo subway sarin attack · paras 2
Comparisons were to Waco (1993) and, within weeks, to the Oklahoma City bombing of 19 April 1995. Those analogies taught English readers “millenarian violence at home” more than they taught the Religious Corporations Act. Japan was described as a society that had lost a myth of safety, a line Reuters still used when reporting the 2018 executions.
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Tokyo 20 March 1995 is the type investigation in which arrests, chemistry identifications and a decade of trials left almost no mystery — and still remade how Japan watches religious corporations.
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Comparisons were to Waco (1993) and, within weeks, to the Oklahoma City bombing of 19 April 1995. Those analogies taught English readers “millenarian violence at home” more than they taught the Religious Corporations Act. Japan was described as a society that had lost a myth of safety, a line Reuters still used when reporting the 2018 executions.
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