Cult group
Aum Shinrikyo.
(April 7, 1995)
April 7, 1995, Tokyo, Japan - Top members of Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1984, attend a news conference at Tokyo's Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan on April 7, 1995. They are, from left: Yoshinobu Aoyama, the cult attorney; Hideo Murai, cult minister of science and technology; and the cult spokesman Fumihiro Joyu. Murai, one of the perpetrators responsible for the murder of the Sakamoto family, was stabbed to death by a member of Yamaguchi-gumi on April 23, 1995. (Photo by Haruyoshi Yamaguchi/AFLO) VTY -mis-