Aum Shinrikyo

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Aum Shinrikyo is a new religious movement. Today the movement is known as Aleph. It carried out a terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway, in 1995. Aum members used a poisonous gas called Sarin. After the event, the movement renamed itself to Aleph. As of 2009, the Japanese government thinks that there are about 1,650 members in the group.