The Sarin attack
on the Tokyo subway, usually referred to in the Japanese media as the Subway
Sarin Incident (地下鉄サリン事件 Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken), was an
act of domestic terrorism perpetrated by members of Aum Shinrikyo on March 20,
1995.
In five coordinated
attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on several lines of the Tokyo Metro,
killing thirteen people, severely injuring fifty and causing temporary vision
problems for nearly a thousand others. The attack was directed against trains
passing through Kasumigaseki and Nagatachō, home to the Japanese government. It
is the most serious attack to occur in Japan since the end of World War II.
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