“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.
In this file photo taken on on Oct. 4, 1987, a Soviet army officer presents ammunition rigged with chemical agents during a visit by Western diplomats and journalists to a chemical weapons research facility in Shikhany, Saratov region, Russia. The facility in Shikhany led the efforts to develop Soviet chemical weapons, including Novichok-class nerve agents.
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Novichok are a set of molecules that are some of the most deadly nerve agents ever developed. They are almost impossible to detect and clean up.
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.
Investigators next to a police tent in Salisbury near to where Sergei Skripal was found critically ill.
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Nerve agents were discovered by accident in the 1930s.
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.
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Using nerve agents is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, but North Korea is not a party to it.