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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Death penalty for Japan cult guru
: His crimes included ordering another sarin gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, in 1994, which killed seven people, and the killing of several wayward cult members or their relatives.
But it was the Tokyo subway attack at the height of the city's rush hour, which most shocked Japan.

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