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People gather for tickets to trial of AUM's Hayakawa

TOKYO, Japan - People gather outside the Tokyo District Court on July 28 to get tickets for the trial of Kiyohide Hayakawa, a former senior AUM Shinrikyo cult member. Hayakawa was on trial over his role in two separate murder cases, including the killing of lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, 33, his wife Satoko, 29, and their 1-year-old son Tatsuhiko at their home in Yokohama in 1989, and for building a plant to mass-produce nerve gas.

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AUM's Hayakawa sentenced to die for killing lawyer

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former senior AUM Shinrikyo cult member Kiyohide Hayakawa, 51, who was sentenced to die July 28 for his role in two murder cases and the construction of a factory to mass-produce nerve gas. He is the seventh person to be sentenced to death for a series of crimes involving AUM.

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High court upholds death sentence on AUM's Hayakawa

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo High Court upheld on May 14 a death sentence imposed on former senior AUM Shinrikyo member Kiyohide Hayakawa (file photo) for crimes including the murders of a lawyer and his family and of an AUM member who wanted to leave the cult. Hayakawa, 54, pleaded guilty in all seven cases in which he was charged, which also included building a plant in Yamanashi Prefecture to mass-produce the nerve gas sarin used in the 1995 fatal attack on the Tokyo subway system. (Kyodo)

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Institute in western Japan holds Palmyra photo exhibition

Kiyohide Saito, technical advisor of the Archaeological Institute of Kashihara in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, looks at photos of the Palmyra historic site in central Syria on Oct. 22, 2015, in Kashihara. The institute is holding an exhibition of photos taken by its team before the Islamic State seized Palmyra in May. The exhibition runs from Oct. 23 to Dec. 25, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Father and son in Kesennuma

KESENNUMA, Japan - Kiyohide Chiba (L), the 41-year-old president of a milk wholesale company in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, and his 9-year-old son Eita, head for the site where their house used to stand to clean up on March 23, 2011. Chiba's 40-year-old wife Minako, their 6-year-old daughter Kurumi and 3-year-old daughter Yumi remain missing after the area was devastated by a tsunami following a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11. (Kyodo)

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Fukuoka detention center

Photo taken July 6, 2018, shows the Fukuoka detention center where senior AUM Shinrikyo cult member Kiyohide Hayakawa was hanged the same day for his involvement in the murders of anti-AUM lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto and his family. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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AUM Shinrikyo cult group

File photo taken in November 1989 shows AUM Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara (R), whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, and senior cult member Kiyohide Hayakawa, holding a press conference in Bonn, Germany, denying the group's involvement in the murders of lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto and his family. Sakamoto had been helping parents seeking to free their children of the cult's control. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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AUM's Hayakawa sentenced to die for killing lawyer

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former senior AUM Shinrikyo cult member Kiyohide Hayakawa, 51, who was sentenced to die July 28 for his role in two murder cases and the construction of a factory to mass-produce nerve gas. He is the seventh person to be sentenced to death for a series of crimes involving AUM.

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Death penalty sought for AUM ex-member for lawyer's murder

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors on Dec. 17 asks for the death sentence for Kiyohide Hayakawa (file photo), a former leading member of the AUM Shinrikyo religious group, for his part in the murder of a lawyer and his family in 1989. Hayakawa, 50, has been indicted, along with AUM founder Chizuo Matsumoto and four others, for murdering Tsutsumi Sakamoto, his wife Satoko and their 1-year-old son Tatsuhiko at their home in Yokohama in November 1989. Sakamoto was a lawyer who was handling several legal suits against the sect.