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Man dies in suspected suicide by gassing at Tokyo luxury hotel

TOKYO, Japan - Firefighters stand in front of the Peninsula Tokyo in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on April 25 after a man, believed to be a 47-year-old businessman from Okayama Prefecture, was found collapsed in a guestroom on the hotel's 10th floor. The man apparently committed suicide by hydrogen sulfide gassing.

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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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Subway staff remember victims of 1995 AUM gassing

TOKYO, Japan - Subway staff in Tokyo on March 20 mark the sixth anniversary of the 1995 gas attack on the capital's subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo cult, which killed 12 people in one of Japan's worst incidents of terrorism. About 30 employees observed 30 seconds of silence in front of a flower-covered plate set up in memory of the dead at Kasumigaseki Station on the Hibiya Line at 8 a.m., the time of the attack.

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Former AUM cultist Ishii released from Wakayama prison

TOKYO, Japan - Hisako Ishii, a former senior cultist in the AUM Shinrikyo sect, arrives at Tokyo's Haneda airport after being released from Wakayama prison in Wakayama Prefecture on Nov. 18. Ishii, 40, completed a term she received for helping AUM members allegedly involved in the 1995 Tokyo subway gassing evade arrest and other crimes.

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3,500 people attend anti-AUM rally in Tochigi Pref.

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - About 3,500 people gather at a rally in Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture on Aug. 8, demanding that members of the AUM Shinrikyo cult who have taken up residence in the city move out. The participants, bearing placards that read, ''AUM get out immediately,'' chant slogans, while AUM members blare cult songs from speakers. AUM founder Shoko Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, and a number of AUM members are on trial on murder and attempted murder charges in such cases as the 1995 Tokyo subway gassing, in which 12 people died and more than 5,300 were injured.

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AUM follower pays respects to victims of subway gassing

TOKYO, Japan - A follower (L) of the AUM Shinrikyo cult pays respects to victims of the cult's 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system at a memorial at Kasumigaseki Station in central Tokyo on March 20. He visited the subway station to mark the fifth anniversary of the sarin gas attack.

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Man dies in suspected suicide by gassing at Tokyo luxury hotel

TOKYO, Japan - Firefighters stand in front of the Peninsula Tokyo in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on April 25 after a man, believed to be a 47-year-old businessman from Okayama Prefecture, was found collapsed in a guestroom on the hotel's 10th floor. The man apparently committed suicide by hydrogen sulfide gassing. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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Subway staff remember victims of 1995 AUM gassing

TOKYO, Japan - Subway staff in Tokyo on March 20 mark the sixth anniversary of the 1995 gas attack on the capital's subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo cult, which killed 12 people in one of Japan's worst incidents of terrorism. About 30 employees observed 30 seconds of silence in front of a flower-covered plate set up in memory of the dead at Kasumigaseki Station on the Hibiya Line at 8 a.m., the time of the attack.

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Former AUM cultist Ishii released from Wakayama prison

TOKYO, Japan - Hisako Ishii, a former senior cultist in the AUM Shinrikyo sect, arrives at Tokyo's Haneda airport after being released from Wakayama prison in Wakayama Prefecture on Nov. 18. Ishii, 40, completed a term she received for helping AUM members allegedly involved in the 1995 Tokyo subway gassing evade arrest and other crimes.

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Obuchi pays respects to victims of subway gassing

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi bows at a memorial at Kasumigaseki Station in central Tokyo on March 20. He visited the subway station to mark the fifth anniversary of the 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo cult.

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3,500 people attend anti-AUM rally in Tochigi Pref.

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - About 3,500 people gather at a rally in Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture on Aug. 8, demanding that members of the AUM Shinrikyo cult who have taken up residence in the city move out. The participants, bearing placards that read, ''AUM get out immediately,'' chant slogans, while AUM members blare cult songs from speakers. AUM founder Shoko Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, and a number of AUM members are on trial on murder and attempted murder charges in such cases as the 1995 Tokyo subway gassing, in which 12 people died and more than 5,300 were injured.