Aum + sarin

The other day, I was fumbling my way through the hallway of an unfamiliar building at Kyodai, a kind man stopped to ask me where I was trying to go. We had a quick chat, exchanged meishi, and decided to stay in contact. I was just looking on Iseda san's website, and found this article - "Japanese society and a religious cult -- the case of the poison gas attack in Tokyo subways" Oct. 1996. - It is about religion and cults in Japan - this is interesting, because the aum shrinrikyo cult members who were found guilty of the 1995 sarin Tokyo attack, are about to start being executed - https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/21/national/crime-legal/aum-trials-asahara-accomplices-can-finally-hanged/#.Wn1InpP1VTY - this apparently had a big impact on the nation's acceptance and perception of yoga, and there was a 'new age of yoga' around 2005, according to some of the yoga teachers I've spoken with recently.