“Stop the hair nudes!” A protest by Kofuku-no-Kagaku members against the showing of pubic hair in photographs displaying nudity.
Ella Tennant
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.
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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
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
Using nerve agents is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, but North Korea is not a party to it.