Rush Hour of the Gods
04/08/20 • 53 min
When I started research for this episode, I thought we would focus on the beginnings of the cult leader Asahara. But instead, everything I was looking at brought me to think more about the context that would allow and nurture a cult like Aum. We have to go back in time, looking at the restrictions Meji era Japan (1868 - 1912) put on religion in an effort to prop up the emperor as a deity to understand what freedom of religion meant for an oppressed nation when the constitution came into effect in 1947.
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When I started research for this episode, I thought we would focus on the beginnings of the cult leader Asahara. But instead, everything I was looking at brought me to think more about the context that would allow and nurture a cult like Aum. We have to go back in time, looking at the restrictions Meji era Japan (1868 - 1912) put on religion in an effort to prop up the emperor as a deity to understand what freedom of religion meant for an oppressed nation when the constitution came into effect in 1947.
For more in-depth notes, subscribe to our newsletter: www.aganai.substack.com
Watch Now: https://youtu.be/TiGeOgEDhjY
Listen Now:
Pocket Cast: https://pca.st/8es9u6lt
Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/before-after-aum
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/78DaqYT1UtrzN0UwggDiRp
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/before-after-aum/id1503524725
Thank you for taking the time to listen to our podcast. Please rate and review; it helps other people find us. But the best way, is to tell your friends. In the next episode, we’ll move onto the early years of Shoko Asahara. If you are able, please consider supporting us by becoming a paid subscriber. All funds go towards finishing the film The Cult Leader and Me.
Get full access to Before After Aum at aganai.substack.com/subscribe
Previous Episode
Capsule Prologue: 25 Years
On March 20, 1995, Toru Toyoda and Katsuya Takahashi, respectively the perpetrator and driver, planted sarin on the Hibiya line, train B711T. Toyoda boarded the train at Naka Meguro Station, punctured the sarin at Ebisu Station and got off. The next stop Hiro-o Station, then Roppongi Station, where director Atsushi Sakahara boarded. Before the next stop at Kamiyacho station, passengers began to panic. Sakahara got off at Kamiyacho Station. The train continued to Kasumigaseki with its first car empty, and then all the passengers were evacuated and the train taken out of service. Two people died, five-hundred-and-two were seriously injured. Their accomplices attacked four other trains. Together, they killed thirteen and injured over six thousand.
That was 25 years ago.
Episode One, “Rush Hour of the Gods” comes April 8.
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One Eye'd Chizuo
Chizuo is sent to a school for the blind at the age of 6. For the next 14 years, he would hope, bribe, bore, and struggle through his experience as the only sighted child at the facility. These are the early years of Aum Shinrikyo cult leader and terrorist Shoko Asahara.
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Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/before-after-aum/id1503524725
Thank you for taking the time to listen to our podcast. Please rate and review; it helps other people find us. But the best way, is to tell your friends. In the next episode, we’ll move onto the early years of Shoko Asahara. If you are able, please consider supporting us by becoming a paid subscriber. All funds go towards finishing the film The Cult Leader and Me.
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