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Japanese authorities fear sarin death cult founder’s son is continuing his legacy

  • July 28, 2025

Japanese authorities fear sarin death cult founder’s son is continuing his legacy

by Scbadiver

11 comments

  1. well nab him and drop him on some island then. I don’t need no gas on my trains.

  2. The police should have someone infiltrated as one of the freaks of the cult to give them intel of what’s really happening inside before something stupid happens again. If it’s strongly believed the son has plans to do something like that, invade and arrest everyone involved in the cult. And never let any cult like that sprout again.

  3. Fascinating how cults/religious institutions have managed to do so much damage over the years, yet due to their tight relations with the government, nobody has taken the appropriate measure of neutering non-secular religious institutions (that is to say, to render them as little more than cultural artifacts (the same way Shinto is) rather than functional parallel power structures which are a natural enemy to the government).

    If it were me, the riot police would be sent to smash up every cult right down to the unification church and the protestant churches in Japan.

    Europe successfully fought back the parallel structures that the catholic church had formed during the medieval period, and the caliphate (while it existed) married the structures to prevent friction from arising. It’s not as if we don’t have a precedent on how to deal with them (though that second method is probably not a good fit).

  4. “The agency also confirmed that the group has 20 facilities around Japan with an estimated 1,190 followers as it published its latest report into Aleph’s status and activities”

    Sounds like they need to be raided

  5. One of the strangest things I’ve seen living here is an apartment block where (former?) members occupy the first two floors. How do I know it’s the first two floors? Because the occupants of the floors about have banners condemning them neatly strung along the common walkways above. There are several security boxes along the street which appear to be staffed around the clock, no doubt hooked into the countless CCTV cameras covering the area. You wouldn’t be able to enter the street from either end without being spotted, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they had an audio feed too.

    Based on this alone I would expect them to have a pretty good idea what the son’s up to.

  6. So they’re going to wait till he deploys his master piece to keep an eye on him or arrest him?

  10. As someone who wrote a term paper on the ‘95 Subway Attacks, I do not get how Japan basically let all these little populist cults continue to spring up all around after the attacks.

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