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Agency inspects AUM Shinrikyo, splinter group facilities

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency enter a facility of Aleph in Tokyo's Adachi Ward on Nov. 1, 2012. The agency the same day began inspecting 21 facilities of Aleph, the religious group formerly known as AUM Shinrikyo, whose founder and senior members were convicted of staging the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, and eight facilities of AUM's splinter group, called Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light).

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Last AUM fugitive arrested

OSAKA, Japan - Fumihiro Joyu, the leader of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a group that split off from the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, gives a press conference in Osaka on June 15, 2012, following the arrest earlier in the day in Tokyo of Katsuya Takahashi, the last AUM fugitive sought for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. Joyu, the one-time AUM spokesman, urged Takahashi to help get to the bottom of the AUM-related criminal cases.

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Gov't raid on AUM splinter group

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency walk into a facility of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a splinter group of the AUM Shinrikyo cult known for its sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The inspection of the group led by former senior AUM member Fumihiro Joyu was based on the law allowing the government to put groups that have been involved with an indiscriminate mass murder under surveillance.

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Gov't raid on AUM splinter group

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency walk into a facility of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a splinter group of the AUM Shinrikyo cult known for its sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The inspection of the group led by former senior AUM member Fumihiro Joyu was based on the law allowing the government to put groups that have been involved with an indiscriminate mass murder under surveillance.

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Joyu group to cast aside influence of Asahara

TOKYO, Japan - Former AUM Shinrikyo spokesperson Fumihiro Joyu speaks about his new group Hikari no Wa (Circle of Light) at a news conference in Tokyo on May 9. Joyu left AUM with members close to him to set up the new organization, which comprises 57 live-in followers and 106 lay members.

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Joyu group to cast aside influence of Asahara

TOKYO, Japan - Former AUM Shinrikyo spokesperson Fumihiro Joyu speaks about his new group Hikari no Wa (Circle of Light) at a news conference in Tokyo on May 9. Joyu left AUM with members close to him to set up the new organization, which comprises 57 live-in followers and 106 lay members. (Kyodo)

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Gov't raid on AUM splinter group

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency walk into a facility of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a splinter group of the AUM Shinrikyo cult known for its sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The inspection of the group led by former senior AUM member Fumihiro Joyu was based on the law allowing the government to put groups that have been involved with an indiscriminate mass murder under surveillance. (Kyodo)

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Gov't raid on AUM splinter group

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency walk into a facility of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a splinter group of the AUM Shinrikyo cult known for its sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The inspection of the group led by former senior AUM member Fumihiro Joyu was based on the law allowing the government to put groups that have been involved with an indiscriminate mass murder under surveillance. (Kyodo)