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	Sakamoto family murder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On October 31, 1989, Tsutsumi Sakamoto (坂本堤 Sakamoto Tsutsumi,33years old, April 8, 1956 - November 4, 1989), a lawyer working on a class lawsuit against Aum Shinrikyo, Japan's controversial Buddhist group, was murdered with his two other family members by unindentified perpetrators that broke into his apartment.
		In their view, Sakamoto was never concerned to become a hero and was more interested in regular wordly affairs, such as sex with the girls or money.
		According to the court ruling, the murder was perpetrated on orders of the group's founder Shoko Asahara, although not all of the perpetrators testified to this effect and according to Asahara's legal team this may be an attempt to shift personal responsibility to higher authority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sakamoto_family_murder (771 words)

	Aum Shinri-kyo Updates (CESNUR) - Dec. 15-30, 1999
		Sakamoto, who was helping parents to retrieve their children from the cult and preparing a lawsuit against Aum, was seen as an obstacle to the cult.
		In connection with the murder of the Sakamoto family, former senior AUM member Kazuaki Okazaki was sentenced to death in late October, as prosecutors had demanded.
		Even after the Sakamoto family murder and the Matsumoto gas attack, Hashimoto did not leave the cult but continued to take part in a number of unlawful acts and his action are thus unpardonable, prosecutors said.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/aum7.htm (8053 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Electrical Field: Books: Kerri Sakamoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		What Sakamoto has written is an intense, psychologically complex novel that startles us with its uncanny insight into the relationship between the private self and its environment, both physical and political.
		Everything is fraught, everything a burden on her; scenes in which Sakamoto depicts Asaka grappling with the people in her life and the memories that haunt her acquire a numbing sameness.
		Sakamoto's comnpassionately and deftly explores the psychology of her protagonist, and only slowly does the "truth," of present homicides and past relocation, emerge.
	www.amazon.ca /Electrical-Field-Kerri-Sakamoto/dp/0676971261 (1731 words)

	Seventh Japan Cult Member Gets Death Penalty
		The judge noted it was particularly cruel of Hayakawa and other members involved in the murder to have ignored the mother's desperate plea for them not to kill her baby son, Kyodo said.
		The murders drew public attention to the cult even before the lethal subway gas attack in March 1995 that shocked a nation that had long prided itself on the safety of its citizens.
		On Tuesday, cult member Satoru Hashimoto, 33, was found guilty for his part in the murder of the Sakamoto family as well as for a 1994 sarin gas attack on a central Japanese city that killed seven people and injured scores.
	www.rickross.com /reference/aum/aum233.html (714 words)

	Amazon.com: The Electrical Field: A Novel: Books: Kerri Sakamoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The two are drawn into the mystery surrounding the murder of a neighbor and the disappearance of her husband and two children--one of whom is Sachi's boyfriend, Tam.
		Using her to narrate the events surrounding a murder is a balancing act, a feat that marks Sakamoto as a writer to watch and makes this dark, layered novel difficult to forget.
		When the beautiful Chisako and her lover are found murdered in a park, members of a small Ontario suburb in the 1970s must finally acknowledge certain inescapable truths about one another and the way their community has been shaped by the dark shadow of World War II internment camps.
	www.amazon.com /Electrical-Field-Novel-Kerri-Sakamoto/dp/product-description/0393320480 (2128 words)

	Slain woman's family forgives her killer - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		The courtroom gallery was packed yesterday for the murder sentencing with the defendant's family on one side of the aisle and the victim's relatives on the other.
		Todd Lopez faced a mandatory life prison term with parole for what the prosecution described as the brutal murder of his girlfriend, Memory Joy Medina, 30, at their Waipahu home in 2002 while Lopez was under the influence of crystal methamphetamine.
		Lopez, 37, hugged his family members and shook hands and embraced Marcos and Salibad and Medina's other relatives before he was led out of the courtroom.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2005/Oct/05/ln/FP510050352.html (379 words)

	Aum Shinri-kyo Updates (CESNUR) - July 27-30, 2000
		His death penalty is the third handed to an AUM member in connection with the Sakamoto slayings and the seventh for cultists for their killing spree from the late '80s to mid-'90s.
		"Sakamoto was the effective leader of a group opposed to AUM and posed a major obstacle to the cult's future, so he was killed because [Asahara] decided that he had to be," Kanayama said, acknowledging that the killings were carried out under Asahara's orders.
		In connection with the Sakamoto killings, former senior AUM member Kazuaki Okazaki, 39, was sentenced to death in October 1998 and Satoru Hashimoto, 33, on Tuesday, both in line with prosecutors' demands.
	www.cesnur.org /testi/aum_034.htm (3116 words)

	Reading Group Guide: The Electrical Field
		Families were split up with able-bodied men sent to set up camps and work on road crews.
		The murders that occur at the beginning of the book function as a kind of flashpoint for her memories—memories of what actually led up to the murders and, at the same time, of the death of her brother in an internment camp thirty years earlier.
		Kerri Sakamoto describes The Electrical Field as a "psychological mystery." In another sense, it is a traditional murder mystery: a woman and her lover are found killed, her husband and children are missing.
	www.wwnorton.com /rgguides/electricalfieldrgg.htm (2374 words)

	The Aum Supreme Truth Terrorist Organization - The Crime library
		Sakamoto was in no mood for soft negotiations and firmly presented a case for the release of all of the children in question.
		The media soon learned of Sakamoto's dealings with Aum and, shortly after his first contact with Aoyama, he was interviewed on radio and television stating unequivocally that Aum was guilty of holding members against their will, fraud and unethical practices.
		Sakamoto's response to the threats was to increase the legal pressure on the sect.
	www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/terrorists/prophet/8.html (1171 words)

	State v. Uyesugi
		On November 9, 1999, Uyesugi was indicted on one charge of first degree murder for the shooting deaths of seven individuals, seven counts of murder in the second degree, and one count of attempted murder in the second degree.
		Whether testimony of surviving family members inflames the jury to the extent that the jury is diverted from its objective considerations must be considered in light of the whole record.
		In describing the murder, this court stated, "a sixty-seven year-old woman (the decedent), suffered horrific indignities and fatal physical injuries as a result of being bound at her ankles and wrists, beaten, sexually assaulted, and robbed." Edwards, 81 Hawai`i at 295, 916 P.2d at 705.
	www.hawaii.gov /jud/23805.htm (10569 words)

	Aum Shinrikyo
		At first, registration was not permitted due to a series of complaints from families of the shukkesha, a practice that demands that individuals sever all ties with family and cease communication (Reader: 36).
		The series included accusations that members were seperated from their families, complaints that children recieved no formal schooling, and speculation about "blood initiations" and large, involuntary donations from members (Reader: 38).
		Murai Hideo (who was murdered in April 1995) is believed to have received Asahara's orders to develop chemical weapons (Reader: 73).
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/aums.html (3616 words)

	News about religious cults, sects, and alternative religions - July 31, 2000 (Vol. 4, Issue 236) - 1/3
		Sakamoto was helping parents seeking to retrieve their children from Aum and was preparing a lawsuit against the cult.
		After the murder of Sakamoto and his family, Hayakawa often visited Russia to meet with politicians and other influential people in an attempt to expand the cult's influence.
		When his family had him declared a ward of court he telephoned the BBC and said he would not be coming home as he had to ''live his life for God'' and gran would get in the way.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /news/an200731.html (4878 words)

	Death sentence for cult guru - World - www.theage.com.au
		Asahara was also convicted of masterminding a sarin gas attack in June 1994 in the central Japan city of Matsumoto, the murder of anti-Aum lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto and his family, and the killings of wayward followers and people helping members leave the cult.
		The families of victims had hoped for the death sentence, but some said that they were saddened that Asahara never acknowledged his responsibility for the crimes or apologised to the victims.
		Families of victims have spent years waiting for justice, though they said the trial's outcome would provide only limited solace.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/02/27/1077676959635.html (842 words)

	V. Crimes of the Cult - A Case Study on the Aum Shinrikyo
		1989 Parents and family members of Aum recruits complain to law enforcement officers that the Aum was kidnapping and physically assaulting recruits and family members of recruits.
		Sakamoto, a lawyer representing anti-Aum groups, and his wife and one-year old son are kidnapped and murdered.
		The police suspect that the murder of Murai had been ordered by either organized crime or Asahara in order to prevent him from revealing their relationship.
	www.fas.org /irp/congress/1995_rpt/aum/part05.htm (3679 words)

	The Bukowski Agency - One Hundred Million Hearts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Miyo, Sakamoto has created a marvelously complex, compelling character who is transformed...from a brave but helpless cripple to a woman who runs and dances and loves, not in innocence, but in full, terrifying knowledge.”
		Sakamoto makes her convincing and finally sympathetic, though never completely reliable.
		I heard of one pilot, his name was Sekiguchi I think, who was always very fastidious, and when his time came, his hair and his nails were too short to trim anything for his loved ones.
	www.thebukowskiagency.com /OneHundredMillionHearts.htm (1132 words)

	Police Recover Stolen Car With Infant Inside - News
		Dan Sakamoto was driving mauka on Liliha Avenue when he noticed a commotion near the Golden Coin Restaurant at mid morning.
		Sakamoto said he couldn't make out the license plate of the car in the commotion.
		Police said Sakamoto's information about the car's location helped them narrow their initial search, which led to the discovery of the car just a few blocks from the hospital.
	www.thehawaiichannel.com /news/4328041/detail.html (820 words)

	CNN.com - Japan sentences former cult member to death - July 28, 2000
		Kanayama noted it was particularly cruel of Hayakawa and other members involved in the murder to have ignored the mother's desperate plea for them not to kill her son, Kyodo reported.
		The murders drew public attention to the cult even before the lethal subway gas attack in March 1995 which shocked a nation which had long prided itself on the safety of its citizens.
		On Tuesday, cult member Satoru Hashimoto, 33, was found guilty for his part in the murder of the Sakamoto family, and for a 1994 sarin gas attack on a central Japanese city that killed seven people and injured several others.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/east/07/28/japan.cult.reut/index.html (702 words)

	Legend of the Five Rings -- Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		You and your magistrates are welcome to the hospitality of the Hida family as long as you care to wait for his attention.
		Hachi assumed that this must be Sakamoto, the acting master of the household.
		Sakamoto’s arms were folded behind his back as he gazed out an open window, a center of calm in contrast to the other man’s obvious agitation.
	l5r.alderac.com /fiction/shinseis_last_hope_02.html (5501 words)

	TigerCinema: Rent 2009 Lost Memories on DVD - Try Now for Free
		As Sakamoto investigates the case, he finds that all the terrorist attacks carried out by the Hureisenjin are connected to the Inoue Foundation and asks for a detailed investigation into the case, but the executives of the JBI try to the dismiss the case as simply another terrorist attack.
		Sakamoto works on the case by himself and finds out that the motives for the attacks are related to the fact that Korea is still controlled by Japan, but he is set up by the JBI executives and wrongfully arrested for the murder of a fellow police officer.
		Caught up in a conspiracy, Sakamoto barely manages to escape with the help of his friend Saigo, but he is badly wounded and his only friend leaves him the message that they will meet as enemies next time.
	www.tigercinema.com /films/detail/54028/from_search (441 words)

	The Honolulu Advertiser \| Island Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sakamoto has had more than a dozen previous plays produced here, and this is the sixth one to be directed by James Nakamoto.
		Sakamoto seeds them with clues worthy of a murder mystery: an unexplained telephone call, references to an unknown dead body, and an investigation that produces wildly contradictory alibis.
		In this, Sakamoto succeeds, but the core of the work is obscured by gratuitous melodrama.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /2000/Nov/07/117islandlife14.html (624 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shinnosuke Sakamoto, a typical member of the older group, who is now thirty-two, described his enlightenment to the Associated Press last May. A candidate for a doctorate in anthropology at Tokyo University, the pinnacle of the Japanese scholastic system, Sakamoto had become interested in Aum as a possible subject for his dissertation.
		But Sakamoto was not admitted to the guru’s inner circle, so he knew nothing about its members’ apparent involvement with weapons and nerve gas.
		Convicted murderers rarely escape it without showing remorse; but, to do that, the guru would have to admit that he was a fraud all along, making the killings more reprehensible.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/fact/960401fa_fact (9363 words)

	ElectricStory.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sakamoto’s father—also a cop—was shot by fellow officers for betraying them to the Hureisenjin, and, initially loyal to Japan, Sakamoto begins to experience doubts, partly due to visions he has of a woman wearing a pendant which is, coincidentally, shaped like the Lunar Soul.
		When Sakamoto persists in investigating the corporation, he is accused of harboring Hureisenjin sympathies, just like his father, and becomes a fugitive, pursued by his friend, Saigo.
		Long ago, the Inoue family discovered that the artifacts effected a means of time travel, and, living in Post-WW II Japan, the family sent one of their sons back in time to change history.
	www.electricstory.com /reviews/review.aspx?title=new/koreanfutures (1513 words)

	Death Sentence for Japan Cultist Stands : Religion News Blog
		Kazuaki Okazaki, 44, who was charged with murdering a lawyer, and the lawyer’s wife and infant son, as well as an AUM follower in 1989, is the first AUM defendant whose death sentence has been fixed.
		Okazaki had asked for leniency, saying he surrendered himself and was the first among the perpetrators of the Sakamoto family murders to confess to the crime.
		He left the cult in 1990 after the murders of the Sakamoto family and was arrested in 1995.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /11148/death-sentence-for-japan-cultist-stands (618 words)

	coming to a subway near you...
		Dubbed the "murder machine" by Japanese media Hayashi is believed to have released the largest amount of poisonous sarin gas in the attack.
		He also pleaded guilty to murder charges stemming from the Matsumoto nerve gas attack in June 1994, as well as a failed attempt to release cyanide gas in a Tokyo railway station in May 1996.
		Sakamoto had been representing families of cult members who wanted to retrieve their loved ones and their money from the cult.
	www.mayhem.net /Crime/supremetruth.html (5650 words)

	Florida hostage standoff ends with two dead Man shoots himself after kidnapping his girlfriend and robbing a bank Japan ...
		Sakamoto was preparing a lawsuit against the cult when he was killed, accusing Aum of luring youngsters into the group.
		The bodies of the Sakamoto family, buried by the cultists in remote mountains of central Japan, were not discovered until after the gas attack in Tokyo.
		Families of the victims would be paid government compensation and an investigation has begun into any wrongdoing.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=18639 (4301 words)

	Aum Shinrikyo
		Criminal cases for fraud, kidnapping, and murder against Aum’s founder, Shoko Asahara, and other members of the group are still winding their way through the courts.
		Taro Takimoto, a colleague of Sakamoto’s, and Shoko Egawa, an independent journalist, were prominent in warning the authorities about the dangers of Aum, but it was not until the summer of 1994 that these warnings were heeded—and by then Aum members had already killed people.
		And when Sakamoto and his family were murdered by Aum members shortly thereafter, TBS failed to contact the police.
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/csrpl/RINVol4No1/aum_shinrikyo.htm (2033 words)

	Sakamoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sakamoto family members, victims of the Sakamoto family murder perpetrated by members of the cult organization Aum Shinrikyo.
		Sakamoto Ryoma, military leader prior to the Meiji Resotration
		Akira Sakamoto and Harumi Sakamoto from Princess Princess
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sakamoto (183 words)

	Amazon.de: The Electrical Field: English Books: Kerri Sakamoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Of particular interest to her is Sachi, a 14-year-old girl who lives down the street: "There she is, my Sachi, crossing the field as I'd seen her on a hundred other days when she'd been skipping school to run off with Tam.
		Moving back and forth between past and present, Asako's memories of a long-dead brother, life in the World War Two internment camps, and her own relationship with the murdered woman's husband become increasingly interwoven, culminating in several haunting revelations and a surprisingly tender ending.
		The book's central event is the murder of a woman, her lover and her two children, by her husband (and the father of the children), and the suicide of the wronged husband.
	www.amazon.de /Electrical-Field-Kerri-Sakamoto/dp/0393046923 (1139 words)

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