Apocalypse tomorrow?
ON POLICE calendars across Japan, a date is marked: December 29th. This is the day when Fumihiro Joyu, an official in the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, is due to be released from jail after serving a three-year sentence for his part in the nerve-gas attack in the Tokyo metro in 1995, which killed 12 people and injured over 5,500.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Apocalypse tomorrow?”
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