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The worst terrorist attack in Japan's modern history happened 30 years ago, on March 20, 1995, during the morning rush hour on the Tokyo subway system. Members of a violent cult called Aum Shinrikyo ...
During a recent rush-hour commute, Tokyo’s Akasuka-mitsuke ... they filed in — but there wasn’t room for everyone. Then, Tokyo Metro employees intervened. The workers, clad in blue mesh ...
People in Japan are remembering the victims of the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system on the 30th anniversary of the deadly incident on Thursday.
When you look for iconic images of public transportation in Tokyo, this is the first one that comes to mind: During rush hour, people on a subway platform are pushed into far too full carriages by ...
Japan on Thursday marked the 30th anniversary of the nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, ...
TOKYO (AP) — Thirty years on from the fatal sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo's subway network, survivors and families who lost loved ones are still seeking justice.
Shizue Takahashi will on Thursday morning take a rush-hour subway train to Kasumigaseki Station in the heart of Tokyo, Japan. There, she will pay her respects with a small knot of station staff ...
During a busy rush-hour morning, Tokyo's elaborate underground Metro system is packed with commuters. All are unaware that it is about to become ground zero for an attempted mass murder.
Three decades since Shizue Takahashi's husband and a dozen others were killed with a nerve agent on Tokyo's subway, she fears Japan could ... Aum members released sarin on five trains during morning ...