Underground (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Haruki Murakami
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Current affairs, religion, and psychology
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Japan
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, Religion and spirituality, Psychology
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Asia or Asians, Subways, Cults, Terrorism or terrorists, 1990’s, Japan or Japanese people, Poisons or poisoning, Chemical warfare or weapons
- Locales: Japan
On March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo shocked Japan and the world. Under orders from the cult’s leader, five of its members carried plastic bags of a liquid form of deadly sarin gas onto the Tokyo subway. At five stations, as they had carefully rehearsed, the perpetrators systematically punctured the bags with sharpened umbrella tips, resulting in the deaths of eleven commuters and subway employees and the injury of up to five thousand others, some of whom have never completely recovered.
While the event received immediate massive media coverage in Japan and...
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