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The Sentencing of Asahara: Victims and Victimizers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Richard A. Gardner
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The sentencing of Matsumoto Chizuo (Asahara Shoko) to death on February 27, 2004 marked nearly nine years since members of Aum Shinrikyo carried out an attack with sarin gas on subway lines in Tokyo on March 20, 1995. Asked to write an opinion piece for the Japanese edition of Newsweek that appeared two days before the sentencing, I chose to focus on how the notions of victims and victimizers have structured efforts to understand and come to terms with the Aum Affair.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 6 , June 2004 , e8
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