Japan's Justice Minister says she signed orders to execute 7 death row convicts linked to the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult after careful consideration.
Record downpours have been ravaging many parts of Japan, causing floods and landslides. Three people are dead and 4 are missing.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in Pyongyang to discuss details of denuclearization with North Korean officials.
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Key words : justice execute 7 death
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Japan's Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa says she signed orders to execute 7 death row convicts linked to the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult after careful consideration.
The cult's founder Shoko Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, and 6 of his disciples were executed on Friday morning.
The cult released sarin gas on the Tokyo subway system in March 1995, killing 13 people and injuring more than 6,000. It also committed other serious crimes.
Kamikawa told reporters on Friday that she signed the orders on Tuesday. She called the attack unprecedented, extremely heinous and highly organized, and said such crimes should never happen again.
Kamikawa said the attack was an indiscriminate terrorist act that involved a chemical weapon and terrified people not only in Japan but also abroad.
She added that the sorrow and pain of the victims of the cult's crimes and their families is beyond imagination.
Asked why the convicts were executed on Friday, Kamikawa declined to answer.
She said that although extreme caution should be exercised when carrying out a death sentence, it should be implemented strictly and fairly if the penalty has been finalized.
Kamikawa said courts hand down death sentences for extremely heinous crimes after full deliberation. She added that she signed the orders with respect for a court decision, and that it was her job to deal with the matter in a careful, strict and fair manner.
Key words : security officials
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Japanese security officials have inspected 20 sites with links to the former Aum Shinrikyo cult, following the executions of the group's founder and 6 former members.
The officials descended on locations in 13 prefectures that are used by members of the cult's successor group, Aleph, and a splinter group.
About a dozen officials with the Public Security Intelligence Agency inspected a facility belonging to Aleph in Tokyo's Adachi Ward shortly before noon on Friday.
Members initially refused to allow the officials in, but eventually relented without a scuffle.
The officials spent 90 minutes at the location, apparently to determine how members were reacting to the news of the executions.
The facility is one of the group's largest bases in Japan, and is said to be home to about 50 members.
Five officials visited a condominium in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward which is used as a base for the splinter group Hikari no Wa. It was founded by a former senior member of Aum Shinrikyo.
The group is said to occupy 4 apartments in a 5-story condominium.
Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa was asked at a news conference on Friday afternoon about the possibility that former cult members might attempt a revenge attack over the executions. She said the ministry plans to beef up its security.
Key words : subway attack killed
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The wife of one of the victims of the Tokyo subway attack says she was surprised by the news of the execution of cult leader Shoko Asahara, even though she already knew that this day would come.
Shizue Takahashi's husband was killed in the sarin gas attack carried out by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in March 1995. The cult was headed by Asahara, whose real name was Chizuo Matsumoto.
Takahashi, who is the representative for a victims' group, told a news conference in Tokyo on Friday that her heart began beating faster when she heard the names of the 6 other people who were executed.
She said she knew that Matsumoto and the others would be executed after the trial of former member Katsuya Takahashi.
He was the last of the 192 former cult members to face criminal charges.
She added that more than 23 years have passed since the attack, and her husband's parents and her own parents are already dead. She said it would have been better if they could have heard the news of the executions.
She also said she regrets that it is no longer possible to question the cult members, as the information could be used to prevent terrorist incidents.
Key words : foreign media
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Foreign media outlets have widely reported the executions of the Aum Shinrikyo founder, Shoko Asahara, and 6 former cultists.
The Associated Press described the 1995 gassing of the Tokyo subway and said the reasons behind the sarin attack remain an enigma.
AP said Asahara, whose real name was Chizuo Matsumoto, chose doctors, lawyers and scientists from Japan's top universities as his close aides, making them ministers of his pseudo-government. The news agency said they worshipped him and carried out his orders.
The BBC pointed out that Aum Shinrikyo is considered a terrorist organization in the United States and many other countries, but Aleph and Hikari no Wa are both legal in Japan, although designated as "dangerous religions" subject to surveillance. Aleph is a successor to Aum and Hikari no Wa is a splinter group.
The British broadcaster said the cult still has followers in and outside Japan, especially in some former Soviet countries.
Reuters said Japan and the US are the only 2 members of the Group of 7 advanced economies to execute criminals.
The news agency said Japanese death row inmates are executed by hanging and that a 2015 government survey found 80.3 percent support for the death penalty.
Key words : Insight Aum affected Japan
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Key words : record downpours causing floods
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Record downpours have been ravaging many parts of Japan, causing floods and landslides. Three people are dead and 4 are missing.
In Inagawa Town, Hyogo Prefecture, 3 workers were washed away while removing debris from a drainage pipe in an irrigation pond on Thursday. One of them, a 59-year-old man, died. The other two were injured.
In Akitakata City, Hiroshima Prefecture, a 59-year-old man was found in a swollen river on Friday morning. He was later confirmed dead.
In Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture, a 52-year-old woman was found in a river and confirmed dead. She had been missing after she left home to evacuate by car.
Rescuers in Konan City, Kochi Prefecture, are searching for a man who may have been washed away in a river.
In Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture, a 66-year-old man went missing after leaving home to look at a drain.
A husband and wife in their 60s are missing in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, after a mudslide hit their home on Friday morning.
Key words : Mike arrived
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in Pyongyang to discuss details of denuclearization with North Korean officials.
Pompeo was greeted on his arrival in the capital by Vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol of the ruling Workers' Party and Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho.
Pompeo and Kim then went to a guesthouse where Kim opened their talks by saying the more they meet, the better they can build trust. He said, "Today's meeting is really meaningful."
Pompeo responded by saying "I count on it being very productive."
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not produce a specific path to achieve denuclearization in the June summit in Singapore.
In his first visit to the North since the summit, the US Secretary of State is expected to discuss a timeframe and other specifics for dismantling the North's nuclear and missile program.
Pompeo is also scheduled to meet with the North's leader during his 2-day visit.
In the US, some are skeptical that the North will commit to denuclearization.
Key words : diver 13 people has died
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A diver working to rescue 13 people trapped in a cave in northern Thailand has died.
The head of the rescue operation and the country's elite navy commander told this to reporters on Friday.
They said the diver, who was a former member of the navy unit, died early on Friday after having respiratory difficulties. The diver was on a mission to place oxygen tanks along a potential exit route. He became unable to breathe when he was returning to a rescue base some 1.5 kilometers into the cave.
Twelve boys and their soccer coach have been stranded around 5 kilometers from the mouth of the flooded cave in Chiang Rai Province.
Water levels are high in the cave, and some of the passages are narrow.
Rescuers are now considering guiding the trapped people out through the flood waters, dispatching 2 divers to help each boy swim underwater.
The diver's death proved how daunting the rescue mission is.
Key words : diver southern
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Divers in southern Thailand are continuing to search for survivors after a boat capsized. 21 people have been found dead and about 35 remain missing.
The boat keeled over on Thursday, 7 kilometers off the resort island of Phuket. The ship was carrying 105 passengers and crew when it went down in stormy seas.
Most of those on board were tourists from China.
Local officials had earlier issued a warning of severe weather in the area, including heavy rains and strong winds.
Key words : court sentenced vietnamese
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A Japanese court has sentenced a man to life in prison for murdering a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo.
The Chiba District Court handed down the decision on Friday.
Yasumasa Shibuya, aged 47, was charged with murdering Le Thi Nhat Linh in March last year after kidnapping her on her way to school in Matsudo City. Her body was abandoned in a nearby city.
Shibuya was the head of the school's parents' association at the time.
Prosecutors had demanded the death penalty. They told the court that Shibuya's DNA was found on the girl's body and that he had clearly strangled her after molesting her.
The defense lawyers maintained Shibuya was innocent. They said DNA testing can involve human error and that evidence could have been fabricated by investigators.
In previous hearings, Shibuya claimed he had an alibi for the day of the girl's death, and that investigators planted evidence.
In handing down the ruling, presiding judge Toshiro Nohara said no evidence was fabricated in the DNA testing.
He said the evidence strongly points to Shibuya as the murderer, since the DNA matched.
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