- Terrorism, Oumu Shinrikyō (Religious organization), Cults, Victims of terrorism
It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. The unthinkable had happened, a major urban transit system had become the target of a terrorist attack.
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- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- 村上春樹
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Tusquets, Kodansha, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- Russian, Spanish, Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9785699157709
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