AUM founder Asahara's defense puts blame on followers

AUM founder Asahara's defense puts blame on followers

TOKYO, Japan - A bus carrying AUM Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara leaves the Tokyo District Court on Oct. 30. His defense lawyers argued at the court that Asahara is not guilty of ordering two sarin gas attacks and other crimes killing 27 people, and placed the blame on his followers.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001099785
  • Registered date
  • 2003/10/30 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2003 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1864 × 2259 pixel
  • Resolution
  • dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 1.07(MB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Subway terror attack rescue drill conducted

    Subway terror attack rescue drill conducted

    TOKYO, Japan - Firefighters with protective gear conduct a rescue drill at a subway station in Tokyo's Hibiya district on Nov. 20, 2014, simulating a terror attack. Around 300 police officers and firefighters participated in the drill prior to the 20th anniversary of the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Shinrikyo cult that killed 13 people and injured more than 6,000, on March 20 next year.
      Afghan school kids collect waste paper for heating

      Afghan school kids collect waste paper for heating

      TOKYO, Japan - Two elementary school students shoulder big bags full of waste paper collected before going to school as burning it serves as an important energy source at home without electricity nor gas in Afghanistan's Bamiyan district in this file photo taken on Oct. 21, 2012. (Photo by Hiromi Yasui)
        19th anniv. of nerve gas attack

        19th anniv. of nerve gas attack

        TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi (L) prays during a memorial service at Tokyo Metro Co.'s Kasumigaseki station on March 20, 2014, the 19th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's deadly sarin nerve gas attack that killed 13 and injured over 6,000 people at subway stations in central Tokyo, including Kasumigaseki. The 13 victims included Takahashi's husband, Kazumasa, who was an official at Kasumigaseki station at the time and died after disposing of a plastic bag containing sarin in liquid form. (Pool photo)
          iPhone 4S launched in Japan

          iPhone 4S launched in Japan

          TOKYO, Japan - A customer in a mask resembling the late Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs waits for the iPhone 4S launch in front of an Apple store in Tokyo's Ginza district on Oct. 14, 2011. Softbank Mobile Corp. and KDDI Corp. began selling the new version of the Apple smartphone in Japan the same day, starting a fierce competition by the two rival mobile phone operators to chase market leader NTT Docomo Inc.
            Japan marks 13th anniversary of subway sarin gas attacks

            Japan marks 13th anniversary of subway sarin gas attacks

            TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo subway workers offer silent prayers at Kasumigaseki Station on March 20 as Japan marked the 13th anniversary the same day of the deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system. Top members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, now known as Aleph, released sarin at five stations on three central Tokyo subway lines. The attack took the lives of 12 people, including two subway workers at Kasumigaseki Station, and left over 5,500 sickened.
              (1)Mitsubishi firms vow safety on anniversary of fatal accident

              (1)Mitsubishi firms vow safety on anniversary of fatal accident

              TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. workers observe a minute of silent prayer on Oct. 19, the second anniversary of a fatal accident in Yamaguchi Prefecture involving a defective Mitsubishi truck. Mitsubishi Motors and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp., whose defective trucks led to the deaths of two people in Yokohama and Yamaguchi Prefecture, have decided to mark the anniversaries of their deaths by remembering the victims and pledging safety.
                (2)Mitsubishi firms vow safety on anniversary of fatal accident

                (2)Mitsubishi firms vow safety on anniversary of fatal accident

                TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. workers observe a minute of silent prayer on Oct. 19, the second anniversary of a fatal accident in Yamaguchi Prefecture involving a defective Mitsubishi truck. Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus and Mitsubishi Motors Corp., whose defective trucks led to the deaths of two people in Yokohama and Yamaguchi Prefecture, have decided to mark the anniversaries of their deaths by remembering the victims and pledging safety.
                  Subway workers mark 9th anniversary of AUM sarin gas attack

                  Subway workers mark 9th anniversary of AUM sarin gas attack

                  TOKYO, Japan - Subway workers at Kasumigaseki Station in central Tokyo observe a minute of silence to mark the ninth anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's deadly sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, in which 12 people were killed and thousands were injured.
                    (2)AUM founder Asahara to face verdict

                    (2)AUM founder Asahara to face verdict

                    TOKYO, Japan - A bus carrying Shoko Asahara, founder of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, arrives at the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 27. The court is to hand down a ruling on him after an eight-year trial. (Kyodo)
                      (2)Asahara found guilty on all charges, sentenced to death

                      (2)Asahara found guilty on all charges, sentenced to death

                      FUKUOKA, Japan - A visitor to a consumer electronics shop in Fukuoaka watches TV footage showing Shoko Asahara, the founder of the AUM Shinrikyo cult,who was sentenced to death at the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 27.