He Called Himself a Buddha… Then Gassed the Tokyo Subway
Thirteen dead. Thousands injured. Five plastic bags of liquid sarin punctured on rush-hour trains.
The man behind Japan’s deadliest terrorist attack wasn’t a foreign agent.
He was a half-blind cult leader who claimed to be the final enlightened being on Earth.
This is the true story of Shoko Asahara and Aum Shinrikyo—the doomsday cult that murdered a lawyer’s entire family, tested nerve gas on a city, and nearly brought a nation to its knees.
Alexander Lawson takes you inside the rise, the crimes, and the final hanging of one of the most dangerous men of the 20th century.
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