Wreaths were offered at six stations including Tokyo Metro Kasumigaseki Station in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Friday, which marks the 25th anniversary of the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Supreme Truth cult in 1995.
At Kasumigaseki Station, where two staff members were killed, roughly 20 station employees offered silent prayers around 8 a.m., around the time the incident occurred. Shizue Takahashi, 73, who lost her husband who was 50 years old at the time, laid flowers at the site at around 10 a.m. "For the past 25 years, even though my husband is no longer with me, I've acted as though he was. From now on, I think I'll spend more and more time silently looking back at our memories together."
Thirteen people were killed and more than 6,000 were injured in the incident. On March 10, Sachiko Asakawa, 56, who had been struggling with an illness stemming from the sarin gas for 25 years, passed away.
The 13 former cult leaders, including the guru Chizuo Matsumoto, also known as Shoko Asahara, were executed in July 2018. The cult is divided into three groups and has about 1,650 followers combined.
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