- Terrorism is unrelated to Japan.
- Are you kidding?
- Do you know the world's first bioterrorism?
- What is it?
- The sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
- What is the sarin gas?
- The nerve gas which Nazi Germany developed in 1936.
- They discover it during the development of the insecticide.
- What is the nerve gas?
- A nerve is paralyzed, and muscle does not move.
- What symptoms do I have?
- You can't stop sweating, tears and slaver.
- Vomiting, diarrhea, and incontinence.
- A lot of organ to live is destroyed.
- I'm scared.
- Is there the smell?
- There are few smells.
- We won't notice.
- Yeah.
- Sarin was sprinkled by a subway of the commuter rush in 1995.
- How did it?
- They emptied a hole into the plastic bag.
- Where was it?
- It is five places to have sprayed sarin.
- At first was Chiyoda line.
- He made a hole in a sarin bag and got off at Shin Ochanomizu Station.
- People fell down in a running train.
- The train ran to the Diet Building Station.
- 2 people died, 231 people are seriously ill.
- Was the Diet Building aimed at?
- The second place was Marunouchi line.
- The criminal sprinkled sarin in Ochanomizu Station.
- A people died, 358 people are seriously ill.
- Damage increases because a train runs.
- The third place was the opposite direction of Marunouchi line.
- The criminal sprinkled sarin in Yotsuya Station.
- The train continued running for two hours.
- 200 people are seriously ill.
- That is a long time.
- Was it hard to notice?
- The fourth place was Hibiya line.
- The criminal sprinkled sarin in Ebisu Station.
- 2 people died, 532 people are seriously ill.
- Next is the last.
- The fifth place was Hibiya line.
- The criminal sprinkled sarin in Akihabara Station.
- The sarin bag fell into Kodemmacho Station.
- Other trains stopped at this station, too.
- 8 people died, 2475 people are seriously ill.
- There are many victims, but there are few dead people.
- The sarin was unfinished.
- Who are criminals?
- Aum Shinrikyo of the religious group.
- What is the Aum Shinrikyo?
- The religion that a Japanese made in reference to Hinduism.
- Why did they have a technique to make a weapon?
- There were many believers who were higher education.
- What was their source of funds?
- They managed much business.
- IT business, recruitment agency.
- Food business, and real estate agent.
- Why did they become violent?
- They was common religious group.
- But when believers increase, a lot of trouble occurs.
- The lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto established the organization for victims.
- The lawyer always stands in religious group's way.
- Aum Shinrikyo killed Mr.Sakamoto's family.
- Did they appear on television?
- I watched the picture in the internet.
- They appeared in TV and the weekly positively.
- They hid and experimented on the weapon.
- Where did they experiment?
- They sprayed sarin on the residential area of Matsumoto-shi, Nagano.
- 8 people died, 660 people are seriously ill.
- They ignored the law.
- Why did they lose social nature?
- They believed Armageddon.
- Were they going to destroy the world?
- January, 1995.
- A newspaper publishing company found the poisonous gas
- which the organization developed.
- The police planned the their investigation, too.
- But the information of the police was leaking to the organization.
- What happened?
- They released sarin gas on Tokyo subway train.
- Why?
- They are digging their own grave.
- This is because it bends eyes from the organization.
- Did they succeed?
- The Metropolitan Police Department was confused.
- There was no evidence.
- There was not a law to catch them.
- The information leaked out to them.
- They can't finish it.
- How did they arrest a religious community?
- Member Ikuo Hayashi of the religious community confessed it.
- Who is he?
- He is a doctor.
- What did he think about?
- He had a distrust of the religious community.
- And the case went to the solution.
- I was shocked.
- It is hard to talk about wounds that don't heal.
- I want to hear stories about peaple not dead.
- There is a very large cave in Toyko. Do you know?
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The former main building of Ministry of Justice. This building was not broken by Great Kanto Earthquake. - Prime minister assassinated
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A private detective Ichigo Kozukue's Office.