The Public Security Intelligence Agency is a Japanese intelligence agency under the Ministry of Justice, which collects and analyzes information from domestic and international sources on threats to n
PSIA officers inspect a suspected Aum Shinrikyo building in 2012.
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Aleph, better known by their former name Aum Shinrikyo, is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in
Public Security Intelligence Agency
…on threats from far left groups such as the Japanese Red Army (JRA) during the days of the Cold War, it began to conduct intelligence work on the Aum Shinrikyo after the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, with criticism that the PSIA did not monitor the group, especially with their attempt to acquire…
Aum Shinrikyo facility in Kamikuishiki, September 8, 1996
An anti–Aum Shinrikyo protest in Japan, 2009
An anti–Aum Shinrikyo banner in 2014
PSIA officers conduct a surprise inspection on a suspected Aleph building in 2013.