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30th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi lays flowers at Tokyo Metro's Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo on March 20, 2025, the 30th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000 others. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at the subway station on March 20, 1995, was killed in the attack. (Pool photo)

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30th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi prays at Tokyo Metro's Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo on March 20, 2025, the 30th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000 others. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at the subway station on March 20, 1995, was killed in the attack. (Pool photo)

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30th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi meets the press after laying flowers at Tokyo Metro's Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo on March 20, 2025, the 30th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000 others. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at the subway station on March 20, 1995, was killed in the attack.

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30th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi (C) meets the press after laying flowers at Tokyo Metro's Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo on March 20, 2025, the 30th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000 others. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at the subway station on March 20, 1995, was killed in the attack.

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30th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi (C) meets the press after laying flowers at Tokyo Metro's Kasumigaseki Station in Tokyo on March 20, 2025, the 30th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000 others. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at the subway station on March 20, 1995, was killed in the attack.

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30th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 12, 2025, ahead of the 30th anniversary on March 20 of a sarin nerve gas attack by the AUM Shinrikyo cult on Tokyo's subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at the subway's Kasumigaseki Station on March 20, 1995, was killed in the attack.

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29th anniv. of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi lays flowers at an altar set up at Tokyo Metro Kasumigaseki Station on March 20, 2024, the 29th anniversary of a sarin nerve gas attack by the AUM Shinrikyo cult on Tokyo's subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at Kasumigaseki, was killed in the attack. (Pool photo)

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Widow of subway gas attack victim speaks to U.S. journalist

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, widow of a 1995 subway gas attack victim, speaks during an interview with U.S. journalist Charlie Lyons in Tokyo in this file photo taken on Dec. 17, 2013. Lyons interviewed Takahashi at Kasumigaseki station, one of the sarin gas attack scenes, as part of his work to produce a film about weapons of mass destruction on behalf of the United Nations.

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Widow of subway gas attack victim shows photos to journalist

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, widow of a 1995 subway gas attack victim, shows photos during an interview with U.S. journalist Charlie Lyons in Tokyo in this file photo taken on Dec. 18, 2013. The interview took place as part of Lyons' work to produce a film about weapons of mass destruction on behalf of the United Nations.

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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)

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One of Japan's 1st female lawmakers dies

TOKYO, Japan - A 1975 file photo shows Shizue Yamaguchi, elected in 1946 as one of Japan's first female lawmakers. She died of kidney failure at a Tokyo hospital on April 3, it was announced on Oct. 31, 2012. She was 94.

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Last AUM fugitive arrested

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, leader of a group of bereaved families of victims in the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult's 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, gives a press conference in Tokyo on June 15, 2012, following the arrest earlier in the day of Katsuya Takahashi, the last AUM fugitive behind the attack. Her husband, an assistant station master at Kasumigaseki subway station in central Tokyo, was killed in the nerve gas attack along with 12 other people.

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Last AUM fugitive arrested

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi (L), leader of a group of bereaved families of victims in the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult's 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, wipes away tears during a press conference in Tokyo on June 15, 2012, following the arrest earlier in the day of Katsuya Takahashi, the last AUM fugitive behind the attack. Her husband, an assistant station master at the Kasumigaseki subway station in central Tokyo, was killed in the nerve gas attack along with 12 other people.

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Indigenous Ainu launch party

SAPPORO, Japan - Shiro Kayano (L), leader of the Ainu Party of Japan, speaks during a meeting in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, on Jan. 21, 2012, as members of the Ainu indigenous group, who primarily reside in Hokkaido, launch the party, aiming to field 10 candidates in the House of Councillors election in 2013. To the right is vice leader Shizue Ukaji.

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Widow of AUM victim walks into top court

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi (C), who lost her husband Kazumasa in the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo cult, walks into the Supreme Court in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2011. The top court rejected the same day an appeal against the death sentence for former senior AUM member Seiichi Endo over his involvement in the group's sarin gas attacks in Japan in the 1990s, effectively ending more than 16 years of investigations and trials involving the group that horrified the nation with its terrorist acts.

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Tokyo marks 15th anniversary of subway sarin attack

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, whose husband Kazumasa was among 13 killed in the sarin nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway system by AUM Shinrikyo cult members, speaks to reporters at Kasumigaseki Station in central Tokyo on March 20, 2010, the 15th anniversary of the attack. Kazumasa Takahashi was killed after removing a bag of sarin as a senior official at the station.

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Widow's film on 1995 subway sarin attack screened

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, head of a group of victims of the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, speaks prior to a public screening of a film on the fatal attack in Tokyo on March 13, 2010. Takahashi broke new ground as a leader in crime victim relief movements by taping interviews with key persons affected by the attack, which was carried out by members of the defunct AUM Shinrikyo cult.

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101-yr-old woman in WWII memorial ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Ikehata, 101-and-a-half years old, heads to the venue of the Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead at the Nippon Budokan gymnasium in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Her husband Masao, in photo, died as a soldier of the old Imperial Japanese Army in the sea south of Taiwan in 1944. Ikehata was the oldest-ever participant in the government-organized annual ceremony.

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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.

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Japan marks 13th anniversary of subway sarin gas attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, the widow of one of the two subway station workers who died in the deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system, prays for the victims in front of a flower tribute stand at Kasumigaseki Station on March 20 as Japan marked the 13th anniversary of the attacks the same day. (Pool photo)

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Japan marks 13th anniversary of subway sarin gas attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, the widow of one of the two subway station workers who died in the deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system, speaks to reporters after offering flowers at Kasumigaseki Station on March 20 as Japan marked the 13th anniversary of the attacks the same day.

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

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, widow of a victim from the 1995 Tokyo subway gassing, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 27 after the Tokyo District Court sentenced AUM Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara to death. ''I wanted the death penalty for him, and I'm glad there was no other ruling besides death. I could not have accepted a term of life imprisonment,'' Takahashi said.

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Court to hand down ruling on AUM shinrikyo founder Asahara

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, whose husband died in the 1995 sarin gas attack by the AUM Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Feb. 26, one day before the Tokyo District Court hands down its ruling on charges against cult founder Shoko Asahara in 13 criminal cases, including the sarin gas attack.

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(2)Tokyo High Court upholds death sentence on AUM's Hayashi

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, whose husband was among 12 victims of AUM Shinrikyo's sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 5 about a Tokyo High Court decision to uphold the death sentence on former AUM member Yasuo Hayashi.

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Prosecutors demand death penalty for AUM's Asahara

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, whose husband was among twelve people killed in the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack by AUM Shinrikyo cult, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on April 24 after prosecutors demanded the death penalty for cult founder Shoko Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, at the Tokyo District Court.

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Women's rights pioneer and politician, Kato, dies at 104

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Kato (file photo taken in May, 1996), one of the first Japanese women to become a Diet member and a pioneer of women's rights in Japan, died on Dec. 22. She was 104. While studying in the United States, Kato met the famous feminist and pioneer of family planning, Margaret Sanger, around 1920. When she returned to Japan, she promoted the use of contraceptives, which was a taboo subject under the militaristic government. She also took part in a movement calling for women's suffrage.

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27th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi lays flowers at Tokyo Metro Kasumigaseki Station on March 20, 2022, the 27th anniversary of a sarin nerve gas attack by the AUM Shinrikyo cult on Tokyo's subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at Kasumigaseki, was killed in the attack.

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27th anniversary of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi lays flowers at Tokyo Metro Kasumigaseki Station on March 20, 2022, the 27th anniversary of a sarin nerve gas attack by the AUM Shinrikyo cult on Tokyo's subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000. Her husband, who was the deputy stationmaster at Kasumigaseki, was killed in the attack. (Pool photo)

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Women's rights pioneer and politician, Kato, dies at 104

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Kato (file photo taken in May, 1996), one of the first Japanese women to become a Diet member and a pioneer of women's rights in Japan, died on Dec. 22. She was 104. While studying in the United States, Kato met the famous feminist and pioneer of family planning, Margaret Sanger, around 1920. When she returned to Japan, she promoted the use of contraceptives, which was a taboo subject under the militaristic government. She also took part in a movement calling for women's suffrage.

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Prosecutors demand death penalty for AUM's Asahara

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, whose husband was among twelve people killed in the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack by AUM Shinrikyo cult, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on April 24 after prosecutors demanded the death penalty for cult founder Shoko Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, at the Tokyo District Court. (Kyodo)

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26th anniversary of AUM subway sarin gas attack

Shizue Takahashi, who lost her husband Kazumasa in the AUM Shinrikyo cult's 1995 sarin nerve gas attack, offers flowers at an altar at Kasumigaseki Station on March 20, 2021, the 26th anniversary of the terror attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000 others.

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Japan marks 20th anniv. of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi, whose husband died in the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by members of the AUM Shinrikyo cult while serving as an assistant station master at Kasumigaseki station, wipes away tears while meeting with reporters at the station on March 20, 2015, the 20th anniversary of the incident. The attack killed 13 people and injured more than 6,000. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Metro workers mark 21st anniversary of nerve gas attack in Tokyo

Shizue Takahashi, 69, speaks with reporters after laying flowers at Kasumigaseki Station on March 20, 2016, the 21st anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's deadly sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 13 people and injured over 6,000 others in the capital. Takahashi, whose husband Kazumasa, an assistant stationmaster, died in the attack, said that even though 21 years have passed, visiting the station caused her to feel as if it happened just yesterday. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan marks 20th anniv. of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi, whose husband died in the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by members of the AUM Shinrikyo cult while serving as an assistant station master at Kasumigaseki station, wipes away tears while meeting with reporters at the station on March 20, 2015, the 20th anniversary of the incident. The attack killed 13 people and injured more than 6,000. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan marks 20th anniv. of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi, whose husband died in the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by members of the AUM Shinrikyo cult while serving as an assistant station master at Kasumigaseki station, heads to the station to lay flowers on March 20, 2015, the 20th anniversary of the incident. The attack killed 13 people and injured more than 6,000. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wife of sarin gas attack victim to attend court hearing

Shizue Takahashi, whose husband was killed in the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo cult, heads to the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 13, 2015, to attend a hearing of former AUM follower Katsuya Takahashi. Katsuya Takahashi is accused of being involved in the attack, but pleaded not guilty during the first hearing in January. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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26th anniversary of AUM subway sarin gas attack

Shizue Takahashi, who lost her husband Kazumasa in the AUM Shinrikyo cult's 1995 sarin nerve gas attack, offers flowers at an altar at Kasumigaseki Station on March 20, 2021, the 26th anniversary of the terror attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000 others. (Pool photo)

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26th anniversary of AUM subway sarin gas attack

Shizue Takahashi (C), who lost her husband Kazumasa in the AUM Shinrikyo cult's 1995 sarin nerve gas attack, prepares to offer flowers at Kasumigaseki Station on March 20, 2021, the 26th anniversary of the terror attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000 others. (Pool photo)

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101-yr-old woman in WWII memorial ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Ikehata, 101-and-a-half years old, heads to the venue of the Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead at the Nippon Budokan gymnasium in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Her husband Masao, in photo, died as a soldier of the old Imperial Japanese Army in the sea south of Taiwan in 1944. Ikehata was the oldest-ever participant in the government-organized annual ceremony. (Kyodo)

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Japan marks 13th anniversary of subway sarin gas attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, the widow of one of the two subway station workers who died in the deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system, prays for the victims in front of a flower tribute stand at Kasumigaseki Station on March 20 as Japan marked the 13th anniversary of the attacks the same day. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Japan marks 13th anniversary of subway sarin gas attacks

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, the widow of one of the two subway station workers who died in the deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system, speaks to reporters after offering flowers at Kasumigaseki Station on March 20 as Japan marked the 13th anniversary of the attacks the same day. (Kyodo)

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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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Widow makes film to pass down memories of 1995 sarin attack

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, the widow of a subway worker killed in the 1995 subway sarin gas attack by the AUM Shinrikyo cult, holds up a flyer of a film she made about it as she speaks at a press gathering in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2010, ahead of the 15th anniversary of the tragedy. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo marks 15th anniversary of subway sarin attack

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, whose husband Kazumasa was among 13 killed in the sarin nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway system by AUM Shinrikyo cult members, speaks to reporters at Kasumigaseki Station in central Tokyo on March 20, 2010, the 15th anniversary of the attack. Kazumasa Takahashi was killed after removing a bag of sarin as a senior official at the station. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo marks 15th anniversary of subway sarin attack

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, whose husband Kazumasa was among 13 killed in the sarin nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway system by AUM Shinrikyo cult members, offers flowers at Kasumigaseki Station in central Tokyo on March 20, 2010, to mark the 15th anniversary of the attack. Kazumasa Takahashi was killed after removing a bag of sarin as a senior official at the station. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Widow's film on 1995 subway sarin attack screened

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, head of a group of victims of the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, speaks prior to a public screening of a film on the fatal attack in Tokyo on March 13, 2010. Takahashi broke new ground as a leader in crime victim relief movements by taping interviews with key persons affected by the attack, which was carried out by members of the defunct AUM Shinrikyo cult. (Kyodo)

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Widow of subway gas attack victim shows photos to journalist

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi, widow of a 1995 subway gas attack victim, shows photos during an interview with U.S. journalist Charlie Lyons in Tokyo in this file photo taken on Dec. 18, 2013. The interview took place as part of Lyons' work to produce a film about weapons of mass destruction on behalf of the United Nations. (Kyodo)

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Indigenous Ainu launch party

SAPPORO, Japan - Shiro Kayano (L), leader of the Ainu Party of Japan, speaks during a meeting in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, on Jan. 21, 2012, as members of the Ainu indigenous group, who primarily reside in Hokkaido, launch the party, aiming to field 10 candidates in the House of Councillors election in 2013. To the right is vice leader Shizue Ukaji. (Kyodo)

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Widow of AUM victim walks into top court

TOKYO, Japan - Shizue Takahashi (C), who lost her husband Kazumasa in the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo cult, walks into the Supreme Court in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2011. The top court rejected the same day an appeal against the death sentence for former senior AUM member Seiichi Endo over his involvement in the group's sarin gas attacks in Japan in the 1990s, effectively ending more than 16 years of investigations and trials involving the group that horrified the nation with its terrorist acts. (Kyodo)

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24th anniv. of sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway

Shizue Takahashi, whose husband was one of the 13 people killed in the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, joins her hands in prayer at the station on March 20, 2019, the 24th anniversary of the incident, which also injured over 6,000 others. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo