Tokyo’s Fateful Sarin Gas Attack in 1995 | One Day That Changed Asia | Full Episode

Tokyo, March 20, 1995. Subway commuters begin to choke and collapse. They've been poisoned with sarin gas. Disciples of an obscure New Religion have decided they need to kill all of humanity to save mankind. How did this happen and why?
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[@Zer0_._]

I actually asked some of my Japanese friends about this incident when i was there in 2011. They don't like to talk about it much, but the basic consensus that i got was that it was a nightmare. So many absolutely depend on the train system in Japan. No one really drives, so they take the trains. They're easier, it cuts down on emissions, etc. One of my friends was there for it. He was about 19 at the time. He remembered running for his life after he started seeing people drop, or seem to fall asleep, next to the trains. He couldn't see what was happening to them, so he just ran. He got most of the way outside, when he blacked out. He woke up in the hospital, and was told he'd gotten a minimum dose of the gas, thankfully not a fatal dose. He woke up exhausted. He was told he's been exposed to Sarin, he didn't know what it was. They told him that he was very fortunate that he'd gotten so far away from "ground zero," his words, not mine. When he could speak again, he asked about the rest of the people in the station. All he got was a sad sigh. He made a full recovery, and is still alive today.

[@nenblom]

That’s great your friend survived. Thank you for sharing the story.

[@Zer0_._]

@@nenblom yeah, you may be wondering how I became friends with someone so much older than I was (21) at the time. I wound up making friends with the old guys in the arcades. They would bring their kids/grandkids to the arcade, and me being the video game nerd I am, I would usually be there. So we wound up getting to know each other. It was a fun time.

[@cheanarchist2381]

Dos he have long lasting side effects or any long lasting damage

[@Zer0_._]

@Che Anarchist he said no, and I don't know him well enough to make my own call. but this was some time ago, so I could be misremembering.

[@jonathanblaak97]

​@@Zer0_._Why would anyone be wondering how you become friends with an older person? Nobody knows how old you are.

[@NotElonMuskk]

His followers blindly followed a blind man, with no sense of irony...

[@michaellovely6601]

Talk about the blind leading the blind.

[@active285]

The phenomena is called religion.

[@somebodyontheinternet1127]

@@active285 at least some of the other religions don’t allow things like this.

[@bella_testastretta]

That’s like every religion and political parties and now even social media influencers. It’s easier to follow blindly then spend time trying to scrutinize.

[@mooniegoodie]

@@active285 that’s a cult, not a religion

[@loveinspired7]

MR. BALLEN's podcast brought me here! He had me so engaged in this story that I had to immediately search for more info! I never heard of this happening.

[@mjnano2989]

Me too🥰

[@gem021]

And me! Thanks Mr Ballen.

[@powermovebacca2980]

Same bro

[@beautifulsoulcwnning]

Me too I can't believe it 😱

[@thundercrackerangrygriphar4553]

SAME

[@darthsreepa2820]

Great editing and interviews! Overall a superb Documentary!

[@pervuniaandrei2409]

Documentaries should be made.

[@darthsreepa2820]

@@pervuniaandrei2409 yeah, they should be. im grateful for the internet for opening up documentaries for me.

[@ErfanElahi]

Even voice narration is so great

[@Highground19]

I think it’s an understatement to say how much of a disgusting individual Shoko Asahara was, regardless of the fact he believed it was “necessary to save the world”.

[@fcos9704]

Yeah, I usually see that documentaries do not do justice to the actual truth of that monster.

[@AB-80X]

He actually did not. Reality is that while he proclaimed that both the 1994 and 1995 attack was part of a greater plan to overturn the government etc. it was all done at times where he needed to throw off the police and Japanese armed forces to investigate Aum. One of the reasons why the Tokyo attack failed as badly as it actually did, was because it was a spur of the moment attack Asahara ordered a two days before. The only reason why they had DF to synthesize crude Sarin was because unbeknownst to the others, one of the chemists had saved some of the DF precursor. The trains and time was chosen specifically because the trains in that area at that time, was mostly used by police and government officials going to work. It was a ploy to throw off the police and government from the impending search and arrests of Aum and their members. He was an utter narcissistic psychopath, and power over others was all he wanted.

[@Immortal-Daiki]

That's why you shouldn't trust the blind in giving you directions

[@aclark903]

Always remember he started off as a yoga teacher, & steer well clear of yoga classes. Most yoga teachers are crazy, he was just a little more extreme.

[@SureWhatever_]

@@Immortal-Daiki It's not about trust. Cult feeds on exploitation regardless of ignorance.

[@thecloudiestday]

I was actually watching this video on the Tokyo subway. Halfway through I stared coughing (my cold). I am glad that I wasn’t there. But now I know how bad it must have been for the victims. 29 years, may those who have fallen rest in peace.

[@jipatkinson2940]

Thankyou for this documentary.

[@reiayanamnam5444]

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” I know this is a cliché KZbin thing but still.

[@jeremysmith54565]

I applicable though, there's nothing wrong with cliché's at all if they're relevant :)

[@Monkforilla]

If you guys go on top 10 Charles Manson quotes. The comment section is filled with people praising him. And it’s a WATCHMOJO video. Our generation is screwed.

[@manunknown6641]

@@Monkforilla you forgot to add "I know this is a cliché KZbin thing but still"

[@雁が音]

The fact that the Japanese are not good at religion is strongly influenced by this incident. Of course I too. Last year, a person who suffered from sequelae in the Sarin incident died. She suffered severe brain damage and her intellect became like a toddler and was always bedridden. Sarin is a terrible weapon. This case should not be weathered.

[@standingfortruth4043]

Religion and faith is very different tho. For example in Bible killing is forbidden by 10 commandment yet inquisition and similar wars were carried in name of christianity.. devil is real and he will make people do horible things but also try to hide the truth so people won't be saved. God bless you

[@wowsuchhandle]

religion didn't invent sarin.

[@sikerslalatm3147]

@@wowsuchhandle obviously it didn’t, but it did ingrain the idea of death to a cult, which did follow a religion. So indirectly the image of religion is just as damaged

[@kizuma_0993]

bruh he looks like jesus in the animation but in real life he looks like a normal man who has never been cut his hair and beard for 10 years

[@manunknown6641]

So... Jesus?

[@pedjmangolshahi1683]

I’m half way through reading the novel “Underground “ by Murakami which is mainly about interviewing the survivors of this attack.👌

[@sinar14]

i'm here bcs underground too

[@Yesica1993]

Oh, I didn't know there was a book about this. Will look it up, thanks.

[@fourinromannumerals]

I knew about this attack from Murakami's Underground. It's my favourite non-fiction.

[@kobz2862]

Same, "Shizuko" had the most heartbreaking case, if you ask me. I was reading with tears in eyes

[@zimzalabitch]

Oh, i didn't know about it! I will look it up

[@hage1098]

Some European countries, like France (actually the French Embassy), said just after Asahara's execution : "Japan should abolish the death penalty". Knowing that they wanted to let such a cruel person live just freaked me out.

[@kenirainseeker539]

If the death penalty worked then that gas attack never would have happened in the first place, just sayin

[@capital_of_texas]

@@kenirainseeker539 Nope. It all happened because of Japan's laws with religion. Aum Shinrikyo used Japanese law for their own advantage. If the laws were more strict and actually did something about Aum after the Sakumoto family murder, journalist killings, the whole Anthrax situation, the reported extortion and torture, and the facility in Western Australia, so many things would be different.

[@werpires]

I'd rather know he is rotting away in a cell than giving him death where he has no way to feel any kind of remorse

[@DeadManSinging1]

@@capital_of_texas That's not what he means. The death penalty is meant to be a deterrent from crime, but it didn't deter these psychos.

[@sikerslalatm3147]

@hage 109 And they were right. He would have been imprisoned anyways, where he would have eventually died. The death penalty should discourage criminals from acting up, not help them 💀

[@einstein9901]

We as humans, do not want to take responsibility for the choices we make in this free world... That's why we trun to religious groups/cults So they get to take that responsibility

[@Nabil-rn]

That’s the problem. Humans make mistakes not religions but it’s not just that because why would a person do that? Killing random innocents, that’s just crazy.

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

Nationalism fits the bill also.

[@GrimPlayer95]

Einstein was a strict determinist, he didn't believe in free will nor personal responsibility... I lean too on his ideas.

[@demolitionboyaayu9999]

@@princeofcupspoc9073 What about Communism in China, Soviet, Cuba and Cambodia? Do you even know how many people got killed?

[@travelleryu]

@@demolitionboyaayu9999 Of course areligious people kill commit crimes too, it's human nature. But you can't deny many religions are a catalyst that turn good people to do evil. I mean, for instance look how women are treated in islamic societies. Of course the far majority of muslims are good people, it's the religion and the education that's the problem.

[@Martin-hc3jh]

CNA Insider didn't include the culpability of TBS for leaking the tape of the Sakamoto family to Aum Shinrikyo members.

[@bpcgos]

Always wanted to get more details abput this event, because back then this was big news on my childhood although it happens outside of my country

[@rosaliasulistya]

There is a book by Haruki Murakami titled Underground, based on interview with the survivors and families of the victims.

[@domenikschmitz334]

The harrowing pictures still haunt me, although I was a child in 1995 and we did not have TV at home. I still got to know about Aum and feel puzzled and frightened to this day.

[@blazicgd]

why are there modern mobile phones in a recreation set in 1995 before phones even had color?

[@EonityLuna]

And there are also footage of train models that weren't around back in 1995 either, like the Tokyo Metro 13000 series at 29:30 (introduced 2017). The footage is more of just setting the mood and setting of the attacks, and they did also show archival news footage of the aftermath of the attack too.

[@CrystalLia231]

This is the best documentary I've ever seen in my life 😮

[@pon2oon]

Yes! He could float in the air! When you photograph him laying on the floor!

[@Jin88866]

I think it's very important to point out that most of the perpetrators were from a generation of people who grew up in an extremely competitive environment, as a result of the baby boom and economic prosperity which made it very difficult to move forward in the school system and access the the top universities. Despite being very succesful and at the top of Japanese society(they all graduated from the best schools and universities), these people must've felt that the country had robbed part of their individuality through extremely stressful education and social pressure. They wanted to destroy what they hated the most and killed many innocent people in doing so. I think most anti social behaviors (not just in Japan) stem from the perception of society as an evil, mololithic entity filled with injustice. It's easy to fall for "spiritual" conmen when society alows all kinds of bad things to happen, and destroying it seems easier than changing it or improving it through peaceful means like volunteering, political activism, etc.

[@Woe222]

True somehow, the system produces monsters sometimes, others are just victims of both

[@DeadManSinging1]

This is a very nuanced take. It is society that makes monsters

[@vmro9446]

You talking about the millennials i don’t understand ?

[@adonaiyah2196]

You mean

[@beegchunguz7425]

You described the current generation of Americans, completely spoiled in every way including education, but yet are made to feel unhappy withe verything because of "injustices".

[@ricenoodles2053]

I really don't understand who's more blind, the people who followed Asahara, or Asahara himself.

[@maugustyniak]

Religious plan: 1) destroy first 2) save later.

[@bingsterc7621]

“Terror in Tokyo” is the Japanese version of “The Jonestown Massacre”.

[@justincholos.balisang6884]

Just finished watching the movie Patlabor 2 which was released in 1993. It had a similar scene involving gas released into the city. Knowing that the movie was released 2 years before this real life gas attack feels somewhat uncanny.

[@mrkipling2201]

Good video. Very interesting and informative. I knew about the Tokyo Subway Sarin attack and that it was carried out by Aum, but I didn’t know about the background to the attack and the other crimes committed by Aum members, at the behest of Asahara. I also wasn’t aware of the other activities that they were involved in.

[@unknown20005]

i like learning about history an the past but i feel for these people affected by this attack an i hope the ones responsible were captured an i hope those alive were able to recover an those who lost close friends or family my sympathys go out to them

[@joesmama8101]

They were hanged

[@unknown20005]

@@joesmama8101 ok good the families will have closure knowing the ones that killed there family members or friends are dead an cannot repeat the same tragedy

[@ともえすぎた]

@@joesmama8101 Recently, the successors to this religious group have begun to gather followers again.

[@AB-80X]

Can I just point out that Sarin is not a gas. Sarin is a neurotoxin with a high vapour pressure.

[@Tommybean7]

What? Certainly is a nuerotoxin and a gas such as tabun. They were dispersed in aerosol or carried by the wind. Sarin can evaporate into vapour which is gas.

[@AB-80X]

@@Tommybean7 A vapour cloud is NOT a gas cloud. A vapour cloud is a liquid in a gaseous phase, not a gas. And neither Sarin nor Tabun are neurotoxins. They are acetylcholine esterrasse inhibitors. They are nerve agents, not neurotoxins. A neurotoxin could be lead or botulinum for example.

[@Tommybean7]

​@@AB-80X vapour is a gas that is in the process of becoming a liquid, while gas is a substance that is made up of molecules that are far enough apart to move freely. Vapour and gas have different properties, depending on how close the molecules are to each other and you even said that sarin is a neurotoxin. Sarin and tuban along with other nerve agents are all in the G-nerve agents category.

[@jessdatol7878]

on that day... i lived in akishima tokyo...it was sunday...and i wanr to visit my filipino friend tovto church...we will ride the same train....but luckily ..i decided not to go to my friend.. becsuse i got headache..ang i am watching when thst sarin. jiken flash. in the news...thank GOD...

[@Kemuri-lol]

What???

[@phoenixslayer6067]

Badguyriot He basically managed to avoid getting hit by the sarin gas attack.

[@Jen-jd3ci]

@@Kemuri-lol he had some headache so he delayed/cancelled the plan to board that train.

[@johnLennon255]

Yea and I was supposed to be one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center. Also I was supposed to be at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed but I didn’t go. And I was supposed to visit Hiroshima on the day the bomb was dropped but I had an ear ache and couldn’t make it. Thanks god

[@jamesdick2580]

and that's why you dont openly threaten your fellow cult followers and leader if you have a crisis of faith and conscience. ESPECIALLY if you know already that they're an unpredictable bunch. that's why if you decide to go to the police, you be subtle about it and dont say anything out-loud unless you know you're safe.

[@jessecollins3652]

Most cult members feel a bond with their fellow cult members so they are likely to try to threaten them, so that they will drop their antics without the police getting involved. That’s why these cults are so dangerous. It’s actually fairly easy for a cult member to just call the cops on one of their fellow members. Will they actually do it? Probably not.

[@temerianlillies]

@@jessecollins3652 also this is in Japan where trust is held super, super highly like almost god-like highly. That’s why cults and fringe religions like this are so common and rampant in Japan. Because they abuse the honor and trust system over there

[@jorgepacheco9845]

There was a song written by Marianne Faithfull about this called "Before The Poison".

[@rsbff4521]

Good basic summary of the event including background & context.

[@mrkipling2201]

These ‘ Leaders/Gurus ‘ normally preach that their followers should live a life of austerity and give up materialism and capitalism. All while they live a lavish lifestyle of materialism and capitalism. Normally on the money of their followers, who’ve been advised to give everything they own to the self proclaimed ‘ Leader/Guru ‘. It’s happened so many times and it’s as old as the hills…….

[@nenblom]

May the deceased rest in peace.

[@BronsonWally]

Talk about crazy !!

[@JohnJones-ud9zp]

This fat bearded crazy kook thought he was God. LOL

[@coolius5221]

Who's here from MamaMax?

[@Аянп-н5л]

Me

[@christopherarmstrong2710]

NuBY - What is MamaMax?

[@coolius5221]

@@christopherarmstrong2710 A KZbinr who covers stuff like crimes and theories, and cult stuff.

[@NikkoXD388]

Im here because WarOwl CSCZ Video

[@shadowsketches5443]

Ayoooo

[@thomascooley2749]

Does any one else notice the structure of the aum is very similar to the church scientologists

[@victoriagribben1650]

I was 15 and remember this well

[@PaulinaGnecco]

Why are cops useless everywhere and act after stuff, that had been reported before, happens again with a larger number of victims?

[@izzemir5469]

What a bad day

[@jeremysmith54565]

Especially slightly more recently a brain damaged lady from the attacks lost their life, least they're not suffering anymore thats all I say, but was soo unnecessary mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200320/p2a/00m/0na/015000c really upsets me looking at the photo at the top of that article though such a waste of a life

[@ryanunderwood1798]

4:05 "Not by hardened terrorists, but by a religious group" Same bloody thing.

[@AB-80X]

Yup. That is probably one of the dumbest things I've heard in a long time.

[@ryanunderwood1798]

Go and cry to your Sky Daddy@@AB-80X

[@baroquecentric5854]

I'm either going mad or I'm hearing background noise from "Tomb Raider" throughout this documentary. It's very quiet and muffled by everything else, but it's there. Anyone else hear it?

[@itachi-kun7736]

those graduates from universities who joined Aum i can't believe they believed that Shoko really levitate

[@elliaurora825]

I don't think I'd fully understand what goes through these peoples minds to do something like that even if it was explained to me in detail & to Fully commit to & believe in 1 person's beliefs?? I have eye problems & didn't understand some of this video as writing to small for me to read & it takes so much longer to watch video if I have to keep pausing it to read with magnifying glass, a 45min video can take 1half hrs plus, maybe translate & do voice over if possible but good job & keep up the good work your doing, 😎🐘

[@FestiCatcher]

Well, seeing as every single member was blown out on lsd to the point where they had to wear diapers... it becomes really easy to believe everything you’re told is very real. They also targeted the intelligent lonely people.

[@williss1192]

What happen to the surviving victims?? In the end still not much info

[@ash5779]

some are in a vegetative state, others im not sure :o/

[@williss1192]

@@ash5779 There was a girl passenger name nonoka who lost her memories and cant talk but her face was covered by darkness. Wish we knew more. Only her brother talked about it

[@ashleyyy3290]

You can read Murakami Haruki’s “Underground”. There are interviews with ex cult members as well as survivor stories.

[@picklecult1228]

@@ash5779 sarin gas usually has a full recovery rate but sometimes it doesn’t

[@viviansytsui]

Sadly it seems like some of them were permanently disabled from being blind to other neurological problems. I too am wanting to look into this. I know they said victims were compensated to some degree... but nothing compensates losing a loved one.

[@neetuchaitanya211]

"Aum" in hinduism means the ethereal word , with most suitable frequency.

[@MrMan-sy4ev]

The agreed that killing animals and insects is wrong, but killing humans is fair game. Sounds Like PETA.

[@alkg4070]

Whose watching this after the ‘Joker’ Attack on the train?

[@davesgliding]

I had gotten back from an overseas trip the day before. Usually suffering from jet-lag, I would miss my usual train and route and would take an alternate route that would have led to transferring to the Hibiya line at Ebisu at exactly the time of the attack. A series of bizarre misfortunes had extended my travel time and so had collapsed into bed the night before exhausted, slept all night, woke up at my usual time and I had no jet-lag, so I took my usual route instead. I feel as if divine intervention kept me off that train that day. So many people were shocked that day. It seemed so surreal.

[@opdhaka]

ひどいなあ😭

[@marcox2937]

Asahara was ironically hanged on my 14th birthday...aye

[@scar3xcr0]

Marco Ng: "But I asked for a puppy!"

[@YYmmmYY]

Why ironically

[@bergen0802]

I still remember this day. I just graduated high school in the same month and I was so ready to go to college in Tokyo but that news really scared me. Prior to this, they used the same gas spreading around the area where they used to have headquarters. There was a rumor that was done by this cult but police could not avoid this huge incident….

[@dirty9358]

Alright im going to recieve A LOT of hate now but religion is destroying society.

[@lr2683]

What do you mean IS destroying? Religion has been around for almost as long as humanity has existed. Way worse things have happened in the world which had nothing to do with religion. Are you honestly saying that every person that follows a religion is a terrorist or uses it to do bad things and destroy society? As a whole, religion mostly brings peace to billions of people and they don't harm anyone at all with it. On very rare occasions, crazy people use it to their advantage to justify doing horrible things. This could happen in pretty much any community because you find crazy people everywhere. Put a little bit of thought into what you're saying before you put literal billions of people into one box. Besides, "cult" is a better fitting word for Aum Shinrikyo rather than "religion". No religion supports or encourages terrorist behaviour.

[@Mssalexis]

@@lr2683 bit far reaction to say they are saying every person who believes in religion is a terrorist, come on. They didn’t say anything like that

[@travelleryu]

EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS. But some religions are more violent than others. For example, islam is much much more violent than say, Sikhism or Buddhism.

[@jacke3330]

If it destroys it isnt a religion

[@wowsuchhandle]

I don't think it was religion that invented the sarin gas

[@WooHesii]

6:26 he’s making some bullshit no jutsu right there

[@CirilloRuca]

This happened on my Birthday. I was born teo years after this on March 20th.

[@rose-byte]

Why would you attack a country that has an amazing economy, and is a beautiful country? It's so unfair.

[@rose-byte]

@Mister Mister What about 9/11?

[@Juujuuls]

CE Organisation the reason why the attack happened in japan because the leader, Shoko, wanted to be the emperor of the japan. 9/11 happened because the US supported Israel in the Persian Gulf war. 9/11 involved overseas conflict. The sarin gas attacks involved a cult that tried to overthrow the Japanese government just so their leader can be emperor

[@weebant9977]

@@Juujuuls Who knows what these people would've done if they had been in control of the Japanese government... I don't even want to think about it.

[@omarb7164]

@@weebant9977 lol, can’t imagine they’d do any worse than what Japan’s government did to the Chinese. Hard to outdo that one.

[@franciscaysip3703]

Shoko Asahara = Thanos

[@성희철-g4c]

i am SouthKorean Citizen Joshua Huicheol Seong. By The Way, i now memory of March 20 1995 Japanese Tokyo Subway Sarin Gas Incident. Because, SouthKorean Citizen Joshua Huicheol Seong it's me too have PTSD(Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) of February 18 2003 SouthKorean Kyongsangbuk-do(province) Taegu Metropolitan Subway Fire Terrorism Attack Incident by terrorist kimdaehan. So, i future forever memory of March 20 1995 Japanese Tokyo Subway Sarin Gas Incident + Tsutsumi Sakamoto & Satoko Sakamoto & Tatsuhiko Sakamoto & Yoshiyuki Kono + Masumi Kono + Nishi Kono(Now Live) & Sumiko Kono(Dead 2008 Years) & Kiyoshi Kariya(Dead February 28 1995) & Kazumasa Takahashi & Tsune-o Hishinuma & Shizue Takahashi(Now Live) & Takaji Kunimatsu(Now Live) & Taro Takimoto(Now Live) & Syoko egawa(Shoko egawa - Now Live) & Hiroyuki Nagaoka + Tatsuya Nagaoka(Now Live) + September 11 2001 United States NewYork City 9.11 Terror. Repeat, Because, SouthKorean Citizen Joshua Huicheol Seong it's me too have PTSD(Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) of February 18 2003 SouthKorean Kyongsangbuk-do(province) Taegu Metropolitan Subway Fire Terrorism Attack Incident by terrorist kimdaehan. Anyway, SouthKorean Citizen Joshua Huicheol Seong it's me is, now thinking and future forever memory working & doing → March 20 1995 Japanese Tokyo Subway Sarin Gas Incident + September 11 2001 United States NewYork City 9.11 Terror + February 18 2003 SouthKorean Kyongsangbuk-do(province) Taegu Metropolitan Subway Fire Terrorism Attack Incident. Plus Together, June 27 1994 Japanese Matsumoto Sarin Gas Incident. (Matsumoto - Matsumoto City of Japanese Nagano Prefecture) So, SouthKorean Citizen Joshua Huicheol Seong it's me is, now thinking → March 20 1995 Japanese Tokyo Subway Sarin Gas Incident + September 11 2001 United States NewYork City 9.11 Terror + February 18 2003 SouthKorean Kyongsangbuk-do(province) Taegu Metropolitan Subway Fire Terrorism Attack Incident = World Worst Terrorism Attack Incident. And, Crimer → Japan is aum shinrikyo, United States is osama bin laden, SouthKorea is kimdaehan. all, Cult Terrorist & Destruction Crimer. And, SouthKorean Citizen Joshua Huicheol Seong it's me is, now thinking → Japanese cult crimer aum shinrikyo + islamic terrorist osama bin laden(attack to the United States NewYork City) + SouthKorean terrorist kimdaehan = World Worst Cult Terrorist. So, Finally, Japanese Government is killed aum shinrikyo, United States Government is killed osama bin laden, SouthKorean Government is killed terrorist kimdaehan. So, Thank You of this video.

[@ankokunokayoubi]

This incident, along with rise of many other cults in Japan caused Japanese public--not all--would rather not to follow any sort of institutionalized/organized religion (for example Roman Catholicism), and would rather if want to be some sort of spiritual, follow the Shinto or Buddhist tradition that's already integrated to and shaped Japanese culture for centuries.

[@MrCount84]

Japan-experiences radical religious terrorism West-First time?

[@Lonelystar_xoxo]

How had I never heard about this until Mr Ballens podcast?! Insane story!

[@TectonicBadger]

I translated these interviews lol

[@James-dg5xv]

本当？

[@TectonicBadger]

@@James-dg5xv Yeah check the credits

[@RaanaGolzar]

ありがと !

[@danisattar9325]

it seems the professor needs special care

[@BigguBosu117]

This is pure evil and selfishness

[@seanberthiaume8240]

the blind leading the blind

[@LoveandNappyness1]

Omg at 5:36 I laughed so hard I was not expecting that but he really was lmaoo

[@PatrickSantos-sn8ox]

And for what???? a post apocalyptic fantasy......

[@PiroKUSS]

Why is the british guy blinking so much?

[@RGMORRONE]

A documentary, directed by Tatsuya Mori made me watch this report. Very frightening what happened. In 1995, I was a Johrei Center member, here in Brazil, and after I left the monthly cult, waiting for the green sign at the car lights, people from Brazilian neo pentecostal church Iurd gave me (very hidden) their filthy newspaper, mixing Johrei Center purposes with Asahara's fiendish cult. I was very sad because of that. If Brazil doesn't take care about their fanatics, what of bad could happen? I changed in my search for God, but Johrei Center's purposes and philosophy are really noble: basically Johrei, Ikebana and natural agriculture, and their basic spiritual ideals: health, peace and prosperity. May God protect us!!!

[@sp1der_ttv]

Anyone here because of Saw II?

[@g.isabell]

I am bc I didn't know much about the tokyo subway attacks that jigsaw mentions in the nerve gas house. I wonder if that was the same poison he said they were breathing in?

[@SpartacusErectus]

I never heard of this wow that’s crazy

[@alexb6821]

And how did a nutcase like him get a military grade nerve agent?

[@werpires]

they produced it themselves as they had chemists among them, luckily it was not military grade and not pure, otherwise this tragic event would have taken even more lives

[@ethanmariani5152]

from the CIA or MI6

[@raydiaz2772]

​​@@werpires I single drop of military grade Sarin can kill thousands.

[@AB-80X]

@@raydiaz2772 Nope.

[@AB-80X]

No such thing as "military grade" Sarin. It's either purified or it isn't. And Aum had shown that they were capable of synthesizing pure Sarin. They used a very pure Sarin in 1994. The rushed circumstances of the 1995 attack is why the Sarin was diluted.

[@Itsonlyfriday]

Reached 17:50 So this is starting to sound eerily familiar to a “religious” organization that’s become pretty popular here in the west, called Scientology!! There seems to be some parallels between the two and their similar beliefs and practices. Really wild!! RIP to all who lost their lives during those attacks 💔

[@nomnom1593]

some people claim how difficult to find garbage boxes in Japan is, but…

[@deidradahl2802]

'''Religious Guru'''? I was in the Caribbean when a mother was charged with the death of her baby. She had joined a '''religious group''' who was taking them to the ''mountain top'' A baby started to cry from heat etc. The leader told the mom to cover the baby's mouth, because of the disturbance. Turns out the '''religious Leader''' was released from the Bellevue Mental Hospital 3 months before.

[@narutardad]

This dude became and Naruto villain and decided that the only way to rebuild the world was to destroy it

[@darthnihiluz5305]

13 deaths is just your average Tuesday

[@jacksonwyatt1564]

@30:00 BuzzFeed Unsolved music😳

[@jebronlames4559]

In my head I could hear Ryan doing a voiceover

[@LunaRose1312]

Id say buzzfeed used the music from this, as I'm fairly sure this documentary came out first

[@imthebotman3432]

Religion makes anyone mad

[@rmsei2187]

whos here from akidearest's recent video?

[@shanicestella2226]

Me

[@dazaidazaii]

me

[@waregraham8335]

My ( ex- ) wife was on the train that morning and escaped unharmed; I can still recognize Aum’s building in Suginami Tokyo… scary to be living here then and Aum announced shortly thereafter that there would be an “incident” in Shinjuku which fortunately never happened

[@infinteuniverse]

How the hell did they even get a hold of Sarin gas??

[@luv_yxr]

Thay made it themself

[@Sukhoi_Su-27]

Bro this cult had soviet attack helicopters, sarin gas was nothing for them

[@raydiaz2772]

He made it, out of most nerve agents that is among one of the easiest to make which is why it's so scary.

[@kurtcometa4818]

There are members of the cult which is a chemist. They're the ones who made the gas

[@AB-80X]

@@raydiaz2772 Right. You have absolutely no business talking about this, because you clearly do not have a clue. Let me fill you in a bit. I'm an organic chemist, but more than that, I specialise in organophosphates, including fluorinated phosphates. Sarin is the second hardest of the four common nerve agents to make, only surpassed by Soman. In terms of what is the easiest to hardest. Tabun VX Sarin Soman Aum had the capacity to make Sarin because they had the economics of a small country, and they had several highly educated chemists, engineers and physicists at their disposal. However, the best Aum ever did, was a batch that yielded 20 kg of Sarin which was used in 1994. ALL the steps in Sarin synthesis are hard. The input chemicals need to be 100% pure, each step then needs to be purified, and so on. It's a long time consuming and very expensive process. Let me put it this way. After WW2, the US forces got hold of just about every bit of information the Germans had on Sarin manufacturing and they also had the men who set it all up help them. Despite that, it took the US government 7 years to get a large scale production right. You don't understand how difficult it is to deal with the HF that is part of Sarin, nor do you know the complications and dangers associated with just creating the DC and DF precursors. Explosive dangers, toxic hazards, waste disposal, then scavenging the acid molecules from the Sarin etc. etc. etc. Easy? Yeah right. You are talking about one of the most complicated and dangerous chemical engineering challenges that has ever been. Hell, do you even know how hard it is to get 100% pure Isopropyl alcohol? Sarin is so tricky to deal with, that due to the short time between Asahara called for the attack to the day of the attack, they ended up with a Sarin that was maybe 30% pure at best, despite having a small batch of pure DF on hand to begin with. Aum spent years and many millions on their Sarin program.

[@travelleryu]

Aum Shinrikyo is basically sunni islam. The only difference is that one has failed while the other continues to grow. Both are pernicious evil for humanity.

[@raphaelayoung9656]

WTF are you talking about.

[@travelleryu]

@@raphaelayoung9656 WTF are the men practicing FGM, child marriages, honour killings, forced marriages, imposition of the obligatory hijab, love jihad in islamic countries doing.

[@candide1065]

@@raphaelayoung9656 why are you so retarded?

[@ColtraneAndRain]

I remember this. I have lived 64 years and from the time I was a child I side eyed religious zealots. My grandmother was a Jehovah's witness. Turned me off organized religion ever since. The sad thing is, the people who follow cult leaders are usually very good people with no direction. They don't feel loved, and they get love bombed. Charles Manson, L Ron Hubbard, Jim Jones and many other cult leaders were master narssists, and actually brilliant in a way. It's very sad!

[@andrewlewandowski8419]

Once I caught it, I couldn't look away. Old Blinkey McGee

[@JungleLibrary]

It's called tourettes syndrome, in case you didn't know, it's not something he chooses to do

[@blackprior7728]

Dudes eyebrows be going crazy

[@ceney9814]

trolled

[@Woe222]

All these cults are after human lives, yeah that is called sacrifice, no wonder why!

[@cathe8282]

I worry about the "innocent" Aum followers, the ones lower down. If the attack had been successful (whatever their goal was) and unpunished, would the violence have built, involving more and more members? I think it would have. Even if that day was further off, if rumours started spreading that Asahara was involved, would people see him for what he really was or would they hand-wave away any guilt? In the 20th century and, we as human society say "never again", but the number of times people hijack their followers' wills and do horrific acts still happen. I can't believe "we didn't know" as an excuse because one should know or find out.

[@helentart1980]

Peter Quinn

[@bob3yorkie]

Why didn’t Japanese government execute openly Asahara by using gun like Ceausescu ? He attacked Japan, its culture and its nationals indiscriminately.

[@elliequddos1429]

I’m mad because what they did to those people in subway train 🚇

[@falconeshield]

What about that whole family?

[@Alien-fu3lb]

All I care about is where he got the gas... nothing else

[@capital_of_texas]

It was mass produced in Australia if I recall. Then they illegally imported it back to Japan. According to a police file on the cult, 4 people were detained in Perth for being caught with some gas while shipping it on a plane. But that was merely a distraction, and allowed the rest of the gas to pass through

[@vyanehtnioj]

@@capital_of_texas it was made at the kamikuishi compound. read the danzig report (2nd ed) if you need sources

[@vyanehtnioj]

**kamikuishiki

[@fcos9704]

actually they produced it themselves, but it was so naively produced that it was just 30% pure.. if it was on its purest form, number of deaths would've been exponential.

[@AB-80X]

@@fcos9704 Not really. You are correct about the 30% though. However, using Sarin as a weapon is much harder than people think. The method they used, could probably not have been worse. It was a rushed attack that was poorly planned. Aun was capable of producing pure Sarin as was used in 1994, but due to the two days they had in 1995, there was no time to distil the Sarin and thus it contained all the chemicals used as acid scavengers. They actually had some pure DF, but it was all so diluted that it only became a 25-30% solution. And yes, it was manufactured in Japan.

[@kookie5106]

Inferno? .....man, not the twisted logics of the movie characters coming to life....

[@tonybarde2572]

Phosgene was used by the German Army during WW1

[@AB-80X]

And?

[@tonybarde2572]

Yeah @@AB-80X

[@PatrickSantos-sn8ox]

Phosgene was actually the gas that caused 80 percent of chemical weapons fatalities......but mustard gas caused most pain and fear due to the chemical burns ....and persistence....it would stick to boots ,uniforms.....vapors spread and contaminated.......etc.

[@catalsaudi6815]

There isn't much about the attack itself.

[@Heresheis0818]

8:17 9:56

[@jarrodyuki7081]

one mile 90 minutes 40 minutes a card and a key to get to school and back every tuesday and thursday.

[@Thedouma123]

25:02, where is this place?

[@jjansen5839]

Joe Rogan brought me here

[@oedihamijok6504]

6:57 her name ... coincidence? 🍫

[@florjanbrudar692]

What?

[@oedihamijok6504]

@@florjanbrudar692 didn’t see your comment

[@oedihamijok6504]

@Emme-ro7hw did you study this?

[@danisattar9325]

6:19 😳what a special salad