Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
A many-layered account of the Tokyo subway gas attack in 1995, in which 12 people died, as told to the novelist Haruki Murakami by surviving victims and members and ex-members of the doomsday cult responsible. Out of the 3800 victims, Murakami tracked down only 60 willing to be interviewed.
A many-layered account of the Tokyo subway gas attack in 1995, in which 12 people died, as told to the novelist Haruki Murakami by surviving victims and members and ex-members of the doomsday cult responsible. Out of the 3800 victims, Murakami tracked down only 60 willing to be interviewed.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099461098 (0099461099)
Publish date: September 4th 2003
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages no: 309
Edition language: English
Murakami is very clear about his intentions for the two parts of this book and how he went about the interviewing process, and there's a small section where he writes down his thoughts on Aum and the sarin attacks. I liked the book for its clarity, because the interviews showed the chaos of a terror...
Murakami is very clear about his intentions for the two parts of this book and how he went about the interviewing process, and there's a small section where he writes down his thoughts on Aum and the sarin attacks. I liked the book for its clarity, because the interviews showed the chaos of a terror...
I will confess that I had not thought of the 1995 Tokyo subway gas attacks since the news stories were current. A religious cult called Aum was behind the attack, which involved releasing Sarin in various subway cars. This non-fiction book comprises two parts. The first part--which was once publi...
The first part is a collection of interviews bringing to life what happened in the Sarin Gas Attacks in Tokyo. You get a sense of the confusion as well as the moral dilemma faced by ordinary citizens and how emergency services were woefully unprepared for such an event. The last half was written lat...
On March 20, 1995 a Japanese religious cult, called Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas onto five subway trains during the morning rush hour. Cult members entered trains near the front with two or three newspaper-wrapped packets of sarin, piercing the packets with sharpened umbrellas the members were ...
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