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Japan: Intense Rain Hits Evening Rush Hour In Tokyo, Trains Suspended 8

Heavy rainfall hit the Tokyo metropolitan area on Wednesday, August 21 disrupting some train services during evening rush hour. Videos posted on social media shows water falling from ceilings like a waterfall inside stations and streets flooded like a river across the city.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, entering the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 3, 2014. The court in a rare move summoned a death row inmate, Yoshihiro Inoue, as a witness in the trial of Makoto Hirata, following the questioning of another death row inmate in January.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - A police vehicle leads two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, as the convoy heads to the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 3, 2014. The court in a rare move summoned a death row inmate, Yoshihiro Inoue, as a witness in the trial of Makoto Hirata, following the questioning of another death row inmate in January.

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Death toll from heavy rain in northern Kyushu rises to 12

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo shows a van that was hit by a mudslide on the Kyushu Expressway on July 26. The bodies of Yoshihiro Inoue, 42, and his wife Minako, 39, both well-known figures in domestic and international hot-air balloon competitions, were found in the van on July 27.

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Former senior AUM member Inoue sentenced to death

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo High Court on May 28 sentenced to death Yoshihiro Inoue (file photo), a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo cult who was charged in 10 criminal cases, including the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, overturning a life sentence handed down by a lower court. (Kyodo)

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Gov't to delay surveys to pick radioactive waste disposal site

Environment state minister Shinji Inoue (L) informs Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai during talks at the Miyagi prefectural government office on Nov. 19, 2015, that the central government will abandon planned year-end onsite surveys at three candidate locations in the northeastern Japanese prefecture for disposing of radioactively contaminated waste from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster due to fierce local opposition and anticipated snowfall once winter sets in. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Osaka detention center

Photo taken July 6, 2018, shows the Osaka detention center in Osaka where senior AUM Shinrikyo cult members Yoshihiro Inoue and Tomomitsu Niimi were hanged the same day for their roles in the 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system. Niimi was also involved in other AUM-related murders. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-AUM cult member Inoue questioned

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 1995, shows former senior AUM Shinrikyo cult member Yoshihiro Inoue. Police have questioned Inoue, who is on death row, as part of their investigation into a case involving another former leading member, Makoto Hirata, who recently turned himself in to police after almost 17 years on the run, investigative sources said Jan. 5, 2012. (Kyodo)

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Executed AUM founder, ex-senior member

Undated file photo shows AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult founder Shoko Asahara (L) and Yoshihiro Inoue, a former senior member of the cult involved in the 1995 deadly Tokyo subway sarin gas attack. The two were hanged on July 6, 2018, along with five other senior members of the cult. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Executed ex-AUM senior member

Undated file photo shows Yoshihiro Inoue, a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult involved in the 1995 deadly Tokyo subway sarin gas attack. Inoue was hanged on July 6, 2018, along with the cult's founder Shoko Asahara and five other senior members. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-AUM member Inoue given life term for murder

TOKYO, Japan - File photo chows Yoshihiro Inoue (C), 30, one of AUM founder Shoko Asahara's closest aides, who was sentenced June 6 to life in prison for murder and other crimes related to 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 12 people and injured thousands.