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Japan on Wednesday marked the 18th anniversary of a Tokyo subway nerve gas attack with ceremonies and floral tributes to honour the 13 people who lost their lives.

The lover of a woman arrested for involvement in a nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 was given a suspended sentence by a Japanese court Thursday for harbouring her.

A Japan Airlines flight to the US with over 250 passengers and crew on board was aborted due to a bomb threat which reportedly demanded the release of a notorious criminal, the airline said Thursday.

Japanese prosecutors on Friday indicted the final suspect to be captured over the 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway, which killed 13 people and injured thousands.

Police in Japan were Monday mulling how to divide the $250,000 reward for information that led to the capture of the final suspects in the 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway, reports said.

Police in Japan on Friday arrested the final fugitive from the religious cult that launched deadly nerve gas attacks on Tokyo's subway in 1995, media said.

Police in Japan on Friday arrested the final fugitive from the religious cult that launched deadly nerve gas attacks on Tokyo's subway in 1995, media said.

A man believed to be the final fugitive at large following the 1995 nerve gas attack by a religious cult on Tokyo's subway was being held by police in Japan Friday, media reported.

Police in Japan were on Monday quizzing a woman over the 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway that killed 13 people, leaving only one person still wanted for one of the nation's worst ever mass-murders.

A former member of Japan's Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult responsible for the 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway was arrested by police on Sunday, reports said.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Supreme Court upheld a death sentence handed down on a member of the doomsday cult that staged gas attacks on the Tokyo subway in 1995, a court spokesman said on Tuesday, ending the trials of cult followers charged in a series of assaults.

Japan's top court on Monday rejected the final appeal against a death sentence meted out for the deadly 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway, leaving 13 members of the Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult facing the gallows.

Japan's top court on Monday rejected an appeal against a death sentence for a member of the Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult, in the final legal chapter on the deadly 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

Japanese authorities on Monday raided buildings used by the doomsday cult behind the 1995 deadly sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway, news reports said.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Justice Minister Keiko Chiba's decision to allow the media a rare look at an execution chamber this month could spark public debate in a country where a hefty majority supports retaining the death penalty.

Tokyo marks 15th anniversary of subway gas attack that killed 13, sickened 6,300. Tokyo subway workers observed a moment of silence Saturday to mark the 15th anniversary of a nerve gas attack by a religious cult, Japan's deadliest act of domestic terrorism.

Japan on Saturday marked the 15th anniversary of the deadly 1995 Tokyo subway nerve gas attacks, with families of victims leaving flowers at the scene of some of the deaths.

Time may have diminished the trauma of the worst terrorist attack in modern Japanese history, which struck 15 years ago Saturday, but widow Shizue Takahashi is determined not to let the memory fade.