Topic: Tokyo
Japan's top court on Monday rejected the final appeal against a death sentence meted out for the deadly 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway, leaving 13 members of the Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult facing the gallows.The supreme court threw ...
Festivals are an important cultural event that adds to a nation?s cultural heritage. In Tokyo, there is an annual celebration known as the Tenjin Festival when a considerable number of Japanese people visit the small Tenjin Shrine in Yushima, Bunkyo-ku. The festival ...
The body of Shindo Nizaemon (1688-1783) is displayed in a special room at Dainichibo Temple, in Yamagata Prefecture. Shindo Nizaemon buried himself alive in 1783. Having broken the law, he fled to Dainichibo Temple, where he was sheltered by the head priest. ...
There ae two basic approaches to dealing with the issue of the head-covering worn by Orthodox Jews, the Kipa (Hebrew) or the Yarmulke (Yiddish, often pronounced " This may be why some self-proclaimed ultra-Orthodox Jews wear them in such a shape that ...
Everyone knows Godzilla and more than a few people would certainly recognize a giant green reptilian quasi-dinosaur rampaging through downtown Tokyo, but fans of Japanese daikaiju or " The monster's name is " Fans of some of the early daikaiju movies will ...
"Yumekui Kenbun- Nightmare Inspector" differs and thus transcends the average fare of manga.In the opening page we are greeted with a gaslit, nostalgic version of Taisho era, Tokyo. Hiruko is a Baku, or "monster who eats dreams. "Doomed Megalopolis" was a visually ...
seriesFrom the child washing his clothes on the banks of a river in Uganda, to the bearded old man sitting and smoking a pipe in the village square just outside of London, all humans are participants and potential casualties in the last ...
TaIl, handsome, and a skilled martial artist, Tamahome gives the impression of being cold and only caring about money, but as the eldest of his family, he has to earn for all of them. Some say this deflnes his true nature, but ...
Tokyo subway attack of 1995, coordinated multiple-point terrorist attack in Tokyo on March 20, 1995, in which the odourless, colourless, and highly toxic nerve gas sarin was released in the city's subway system. In June 1994 sarin was used in an attack ...
Tokyo marks 15th anniversary of subway gas attack that killed 13, sickened 6,300Tokyo subway workers observed a moment of silence Saturday to mark the 15th anniversary of a nerve gas attack by a religious cult, Japan's deadliest act of domestic terrorism.About 20 ...
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