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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Map of the Tokyo Subway
Part One - Underground
Preface
Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Chiyoda Line
Kiyoka Izumi: Nobody was dealing with things calmly
Masaru Yuasa: I’ve been here since I first joined
Minoru Miyata: At that point Takahashi was still alive
Toshiaki Toyoda: I’m not a sarin victim, I’m a survivor
Tomoko Takatsuki: It’s not even whether or not to take the subway, just to go out walking scares me now
Mitsuteru Izutsu: The day after the gas attack, I asked my wife for a divorce
Aya Kazaguchi: Luckily I was dozing off
Hideki Sono: Everyone loves a scandal
Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Marunouchi Line (Destination: Ogikubo)
Mitsuo Arima: I felt like I was watching a program on TV
Kenji Ohashi: Looking back, it all started because the bus was two minutes early
Soichi Inagawa: That day and that day only I took the first door
Sumio Nishimura: If I hadn’t been there, somebody else would have picked up the packets
Koichi Sakata: I was in pain, yet I still bought my milk as usual
Tatsuo Akashi: The night before the gas attack, the family was saying over dinner, “My, how lucky we are”
Shizuko Akashi: “Ii-yu-nii-an [Disneyland]”
Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Marunouchi Line (Destination: Ikebukuro)
Shintaro Komada: “What can that be?” I thought
Ikuko Nakayama: I knew it was sarin
Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Hibiya Line (Departing: Naka-meguro)
Hiroshige Sugazaki: “What if you never see your grandchild’s face?”
Kozo Ishino: I had some knowledge of sarin
Michael Kennedy: I kept shouting, “Please, please, please!” in Japanese
Yoko Iizuka: That kind of fright is something you never forget
Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Hibiya Line (Departing: Kita-senju; Destination: Naka-meguro)
Noburu Terajima: I’d borrowed the down payment, and my wife was expecting—it looked pretty bad
Masanori Okuyama: In a situation like that the emergency services aren’t much help at all
Michiaki Tamada: Ride the trains every day and you know what’s regular air
Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Hibiya Line
Takanori Ichiba: Some crazy’s probably sprinkled pesticides or something
Naoyuki Ogata: We’ll never make it. If we wait for the ambulance we’re done for
Michiru Kono: It’d be pathetic to die like this
Kei’ichi Ishikura: The day of the gas attack was my sixty-fifth birthday
Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Kodemmacho station
Ken’ichi Yamazaki: I saw his face and thought: “I’ve seen this character somewhere”
Yoshiko Wada, widow of Eiji Wada: He was such a kind person. He seemed to get even kinder before he died
Kichiro and Sanae Wada, parents of Eiji Wada: He was an undemanding child
Koichiro Makita: Sarin! Sarin!
Dr. Toru Saito: The very first thing that came to mind was poison gas—cyanide or sarin
Dr. Nobuo Yanagisawa: There is no prompt and efficient system in Japan for dealing with a major catastrophe
Blind Nightmare: Where Are We Japanese Going?
Part Two - The Place that was Promised
Preface
Hiroyuki Kano: I’m still in Aum
Akio Namimura: Nostradamus had a great influence on my generation
Mitsuharu Inaba: Each individual has his own image of the Master
Hajime Masutani: This was like an experiment using human beings
Miyuki Kanda: In my previous life I was a man
Shin’ichi Hosoi: “If I stay here,” I thought, “I’m going to die”
Harumi Iwakura: Asahara tried to force me to have sex with him
Hidetoshi Takahashi: No matter how grotesque a figure Asahara appears, I can’t just dismiss him
Afterword
Appendix
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
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