Sarin attack anniversary observed at Tokyo subway station

Friday 20th March, 03:14 PM JST

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Samuraiiki at 03:32 PM JST - 20th March

This should have never happened in first place if the J police and their intelligence agencies were on top of the Matsumoto sarin incident.
Robusta at 03:51 PM JST - 20th March

I remember it well - it was chilling. Having grown up in London where we were constantly worried about IRA bombs on trains, I never would have imagined such an event in Japan.

You just can't account for that hidden nutter factor...

The trouble is that everyone's so wrapped up in telling each other how safe the country is (which it is...), that the oddballs can just melt into the background...

In the UK there are knives and extremists, but no one does creepy weirdo like Japan.
BBLeo at 05:45 PM JST - 20th March

Such attacks could be prevented, in the future with Japanese people participating keeping their eyes open, and report if the see anything suspicious.
Disillusioned at 07:46 PM JST - 20th March

Is anniversary the right thing to call this gathering? Would a commemoratory service be more suitable?
maineahrtist at 11:52 PM JST - 20th March

i remember walking btwn shibuya and?...omotesando....and seeing these weird posters along a wall facing a roaring highway...all about some fat guy(who looked blind...from the photo) who claimed to be able to hold his breath for hours?....whatever, a long time....under water...and he could train you as well!!!! this was in '92 maybe...soooo it took a while to get the ball rolling...seemed absurd on the face of it...but hey the orient ...and all that. When the attack came @ Kasumigaseki?...my wife at the time...barely missed being in the station at the critical moment!...what does it say about japan?...not much, i suppose...a very complicated world...what!?
timorborder at 10:26 AM JST - 21st March

I remember taking a holiday in Japan around 1990 and seeing fat boy (Asahara) and his elephant girls dancing out in front of Asagaya Station as part of their election campaign (yes he did try to become a politican). Me and a friend had a great time taking the pxss out of them.

It is interesting to note that Asahara and his flunkies have recently been throwing themselves on the mercy of the court (trying to avoid the noose). All you have to do is think back to this incident, what happened up in Matsumoto (and the bungling by the local plod), Asahara's kidnapping and murder of the lawyer's family (including a baby), etc., to realize that these folks need to pay the ultimate price.

Finally, anybody who thinks that this Sarin attack is over needs to know that in addition to those folks who were killed (including the station employee who picked up a bag of sarin and disposed of it - basically commiting suicide to save others), there are still a large number of people who are suffering the after effects of this terrorist act.
European1 at 07:22 PM JST - 22nd March

and now we pay the price being photographed and fingerprinted as potential copycats. If it happens again, it will be 100% done by Japanese.