Last Stop: The Tokyo Subway Attack

Once Upon A Crime

Esther Ludlow

Truecrime, History, True Crime, Crime, Criminals, Criminology, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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On March 20, 1995 a group of men board the Tokyo Metro subway system and release deadly sarin gas. The mass murder was ordered by Aum Supreme Truth cult leader Shoko Asahara. #massmurder #cults #Japan #terrorism #chemicalweapons Resources: Books: The Cult at the End of the World by David Kaplan and Andrew Marshall Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Mrakami www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime to become a patron and get bonus content and merchandise. Social Media Links: www.facebook.com/onceuponacrimepod www.twitter.com/uponacrime www.instagram.com/onceuponacrimepod

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0:00.0	This podcast details true crime cases.
0:03.1	It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.
0:06.9	It is not intended for children.
0:08.9	Listener discretion is advised.
0:14.0	Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.
0:17.7	We're in the series Last Stop, where I detail crimes that happened on public transportation.
0:23.7	This time we travel to Japan to learn about a terrorist attack on Tokyo subway system.
0:29.6	Tokyo subway is the busiest underground transportation system in the world. With over 400 miles of
0:34.9	tracks, it serves over 9 million passengers each day.
0:38.9	On March 20, 1995, five men boarded five separate train cars in a planned attack
0:44.9	that would employ one of the deadliest forms of chemical weapons, sarin gas.
0:49.9	Why they did it, and on whose orders, makes this a truly bizarre case.
0:54.9	This is Chapter 3 of Last Stop, the Tokyo Subway Attack.
1:04.5	March 20, 1995.
1:07.2	Five men entered the rush hour commute on Tokyo's underground subway system, the metro.
1:12.5	It was 7.45 a.m. Separately, they boarded five different trains on three different lines.
1:19.2	They had precisely timed the trains and knew that the three lines would intersect through the Kaasuma-Gaseki Station at 8.15 a.m.
1:27.4	This particular station was located near the Tokyo
1:30.5	Metropolitan Police Department and the center of the Japanese government. The men were all members
1:36.4	of a cult group called Am Shinrikio, or Am Supreme Truth. The OM members believed that Armageddon
1:43.6	and the end of the world was near.
1:45.0	Their plan was to kick off World War III and hasten the end of days.
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