An edition of アンダーグラウンド (1997)

Underground

1st Vintage international ed.
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An edition of アンダーグラウンド (1997)

Underground

1st Vintage international ed.
  • 3.5 (2 ratings) ·
  • 41 Want to read
  • 4 Have read

"The Tokyo Gas Attack left twelve people dead and over thousands injured; many suffering from after-effects such as blindness, memory loss and paralysis as a consequence of inhaling sarin gas. In Underground the survivors recount their thoughts and feelings at the time, marvel at the slow response of the emergency services, and reveal how the attack has changed their view of society.

We are left with a sense not only of the nightmarish quality of the assault, but also of something amiss in Tokyo itself, perhaps in modern city life everywhere. In the second half of the book, Murakami interviews members of the Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) cult, in the hope that they might be able to explain how their guru, Shoko Asahara, instilled such devotion in his followers and why he resorted to terrorism."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
366

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Underground
Underground: el atentado con gas sarín en el metro de Tokio y la psicología japonesa
2014, Tusquets Editores
in Spanish
Cover of: Underground / Podzemka
Underground / Podzemka
2006, Eksmo
Hardcover in Russian
Cover of: Underground
Underground
September 4, 2003, Vintage, Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Cover of: Underground
Underground
2001, Vintage International
in English - 1st Vintage international ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Other Titles
Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese psyche

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.15/23/0952
Library of Congress
BP605.O88 M8613 2001, BP605.O88M8613 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 366 p., map ;
Number of pages
366

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18331553M
Internet Archive
undergroundtokyo00haru
ISBN 10
0375725806
LCCN
00069310
OCLC/WorldCat
505175061
Library Thing
58240
Goodreads
229173

Work Description

It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. The unthinkable had happened, a major urban transit system had become the target of a terrorist attack.

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Two men were assigned to drop sarin gas on the Chiyoda Line: Ikuo Hayashi and Tomomitsu Niimi.
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