Subway worker's widow applies for gov't benefits for AUM victims

Subway worker's widow applies for gov't benefits for AUM victims

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, 61, whose husband was killed in the AUM Shinrikyo cult's sarin nerve gas attacks in the Tokyo subway system in 1995, talks during a press conference at a press club in the Tokyo District Court building in Tokyo on Dec. 18, after applying for benefits the government will pay victims of AUM's crimes and the victim's families as the law for the step went into force the same day. (Kyodo)

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