Overview
- At Tokyo Metro’s Kasumigaseki Station on March 20, station staff observed a moment of silence at the attack’s time and set up a flower stand for mourners.
- Takahashi Shizue, 79, whose husband was an assistant stationmaster who died after removing a sarin-filled bag, offered flowers and prayed.
- She said victims and families remain burdened more than three decades later and described daily efforts opposing groups that carry on Aum’s lineage.
- The 1995 morning-rush assault released the nerve agent on five train cars across the Hibiya, Chiyoda, and Marunouchi lines.
- Authorities have attributed the coordinated attack, which killed 14 people and injured more than 6,000, to Aum Shinrikyo senior members acting on orders from leader Matsumoto Chizuo, known as Shoko Asahara.