The 1990s delivered the Japanese people a triple punch. The first was a punch to the belly in the form of a devastating economic downturn. Then a body blow on January 17, 1995 when the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck Kobe and nearby districts, killing nearly 6,500 people. Finally came the uppercut: the sarin gas attack of March 20, 1995 on the Tokyo subways, perpetrated by an occult radical religious sect, Aum Shinrikyo.
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