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Tear is just one of 8,550 Japanese companies selling funerals and wakes. Yet by expanding to 98 locations, it has become the biggest in the city of Nagoya and the second-largest in Japan (just behind ... ( read original story ...)

firefighters and members of Japan‘s Self-Defense Forces were responding to appeals for help. The weather also hit industry. Some automakers halted production as the rain and flooding disrupted supply ... ( read original story ...)

firefighters and members of Japan‘s Self-Defense Forces were responding to appeals for help. The weather also hit industry. Some automakers halted production as the rain and flooding disrupted supply ... ( read original story ...)

Kyodo news agency said on Friday, citing warnings by a senior police official that Aum followers remained active. The agency said it searched 16 facilities belonging to three groups across Japan on Fr... ( read original story ...)

Lee Ok-sun was 15 years old in 1942, when two Japanese men in civilian clothes abducted her while she was out running errands in the port city of Busan, in what is now South Korea. She was eventually ... ( read original story ...)

Japan executed on Friday the former leader of a doomsday cult and six other members of the group that carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 ... read out the names of the seven at ... ( read original story ...)

“I want to see you.” A few seconds later, a network voice-over in Japanese began summarizing the video’s contents, while continuing to show Mr. Yasuda speak. The segment that ANN News broadcast showed ... ( read original story ...)

Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa read out the names of the seven at a news conference and said what they had done was “extremely atrocious”. “These crimes ... plunged people not only in Japan but in oth... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — The executions Friday of a doomsday cult leader ... and that is beyond my imagination,” Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa told a news conference. She said the crime affected not only Japan but al... ( read original story ...)

She signed the execution order on Tuesday. The cult’s most notorious crime was the release of sarin gas on Tokyo subways in 1995. The attack killed 13 people and sickened more than 6,000 others. 11:50 ... ( read original story ...)

Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa read out the names of the seven at a news conference and said what they had done was “extremely atrocious”. “These crimes ... plunged people not only in Japan but in oth... ( read original story ...)

and I wanted the authorities and experts to learn more from them," she told a televised news conference. "I regret that is no longer possible." The cult claimed 10,000 members in Japan and 30,000 in R... ( read original story ...)

Shoko Asahara was hanged Friday morning for masterminding a series of deadly crimes including a 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. Kiyoe Iwata told Japanese broadcaster NHK by phone Fri... ( read original story ...)

Asahara had been on death row for masterminding a 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subways and other crimes. The subway attack killed 13 people and sickened more than 6,000. 9:55 a.m. Major Japanese ... ( read original story ...)

On March 20, 1995, members of the cult left punctured bags filled with liquid nerve agent on train lines going through Tokyo's political district. The toxin struck victims down in a matter of seconds, ... ( read original story ...)

The leader of a doomsday cult in Japan and several of his followers were executed Friday for their roles in a 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system ... Nicole Darrah covers breaking and tre... ( read original story ...)