After 8-Year Trial in Japan, Cultist Is Sentenced to Death Tokyo District Court Judge Shoji Ogawa, after 8-year trial, sentences Shoko Asahara, former leader of religious cult Aum Shinrikyo, to death ...

TOKYO (CNN) — Seven members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, which carried out the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, have been executed, Japanese officials said Friday. Cult leader Shoko ...

Six members of a Japanese doomsday cult held responsible for the deaths of dozens of people have been executed, according to Japan's justice minister. Six members of a Japanese doomsday cult held ...

Japan’s justice minister says she approved the executions of a cult leader and six of his followers because of the seriousness of their crimes and the pain they inflicted. The seven death row inmates ...

About 50 percent of children raised by the infamous Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo faced mental trauma and nutrition that took a long time to overcome, says a report. The trauma of the children ...