Aum Shinrikyo – Berita, Riset, dan Analisis – The Conversation

“Stop the hair nudes!” A protest by Kofuku-no-Kagaku members against the showing of pubic hair in photographs displaying nudity. Ella Tennant

September 21, 2018

Gurus, gas attacks and pubic hair: the strange history of Japan’s new religions

Ella Tennant, Keele University

From a sarin attack on a city subway to the rebirth of Buddha to protest marches against indecent magazines, Japan’s religious movements have covered a lot of ground.

Iwao Hakamada in 2014. EPA/Franck Robichon

Juni 26, 2018

Why Japan is reluctant to retry the world’s longest-serving death row inmate

Mai Sato, University of Reading

Iwao Hakamada was tried for quadruple murder in 1966, but the evidence that convicted him is regarded with widespread scepticism.

Aum Shinrikyo cult leader Shoko Asahara at the time of his sentencing in 2004. EPA/Toshiki Sawaguchi

Maret 22, 2018

Aum Shinrikyo subway sarin attack: Japanese cult members await execution two decades on

Mai Sato, University of Reading

The 1995 Tokyo sarin attack helped make Japanese criminal justice dramatically more punitive.

Members of the youth wing of the National Front, Malaysia’s ruling coalition, hold placards during a protest at the North Korea embassy following the murder of Kim Jong-nam in Kuala Lumpur. Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters

Februari 24, 2017

Malaysia says Kim Jong-nam was killed with a chemical weapon – here’s what you need to know

Emily Crawford, University of Sydney dan Ian Musgrave, University of Adelaide

Using nerve agents is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, but North Korea is not a party to it.

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