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.
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Iwao Hakamada was tried for quadruple murder in 1966, but the evidence that convicted him is regarded with widespread scepticism.
The 1995 Tokyo sarin attack helped make Japanese criminal justice dramatically more punitive.
Using nerve agents is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, but North Korea is not a party to it.
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