FILE - This combination of file photos shows Aum Shinrikyo cult leader Shoko Asahara, from top left to right, his cult members, Tomomasa Nakagawa, Seiichi Endo, and Masami Tsuchiya. Other members from ...

Japan’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence of doomsday cult founder Shoko Asahara for the 1995 nerve-gas attack on Tokyo’s subways, a court official said. Asahara was convicted in 2004 ...

Former cult guru Shoko Asahara, accused of masterminding the 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo’s subways and amassing arsenals of chemical and biological weapons, faced a verdict Friday — and possible ...

Shoko Asahara, guru of Aum Shinrikyo cult, pleads not guilty in Japanese court to masterminding 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo subway system; he offers meandering, often unintelligible, account in ...

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 ...