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CONTENTS
PART ONE UNDERGROUND
Preface *
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: CHIYODA LINE TRAIN A725K
“Nobody was dealing with things calmly” Kiyoka Izumi (26) *
“I’ve been here since I first joined” Masaru Yuasa (24)
“At that point Takahashi was still alive” Minoru Miyata (54)
“I’m not a sarin victim, I’m a survivor” Toshiaki Toyoda (52)
“It’s not even whether or not to take the subway, just to go out walking scares me now” Tomoko Takatsuki (26)
“The day after the gas attack, I asked my wife for a divorce” Mitsuteru Izutsu (38)
“Luckily I was dozing off” Aya Kazaguchi (23)
“Everyone loves a scandal” Hideki Sono (36)
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: MARUNOUCHI LINE (Destination: Ogikubo) TRAIN A777
“I felt like I was watching a program on TV” Mitsuo Arima (41)
“Looking back, it all started because the bus was two minutes early” Kenji Ohashi (41)
“That day and that day only I took the first door” Soichi Inagawa (64)
“If I hadn’t been there , somebody else would have picked up the packets” Sumio Nishimura (46)
“I was in pain, yet I still bought my milk as usual” Koichi Sakata (50)
“The night before the gas attack, the family was saying over dinner, ‘My, how lucky we are” “Tatsuo Akashi” (now 37) elder brother of critically injured “Shizuko Akashi”
“Ii-yu-nii-an [Disneyland]” “Shizuko Akashi” (31)
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: MARUNOUCHI LINE (Destination: Ikebukuro) TRAIN B8OI/A8OI/B9OI
“What can that be?” I thought Shintaro Komada (58)
“I knew it was sarin” “Ikuko Nakayama” (in her 30s)
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: HIBIYA LINE (Departing: Naka-meguro) TRAIN B711T
“What if you never see your grandchild’s face?” Hiroshige Sugazaki (58)
“I had some knowledge of sarin” Kozo Ishino (39)
“I kept shouting, ‘Please, please, please!’ in Japanese” Michael Kennedy (63)
“That kind of fright is something you never forget” Yoko Iizuka (24)
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: HIBIYA LINE (Departing: Kita-senju / Destination: Naka-meguro) TRAIN A720S
“I’d borrowed the down payment, and my wife was expecting—it looked pretty bad” Noburu Terajima (35)
“In a situation like that the emergency services aren’t much help at all” Masanori Okuyama (42)
“Ride the trains every day and you know what’s regular air” Michiaki Tamada (43)
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: HIBIYA LINE TRAIN A738S
“Some crazy’s probably sprinkled pesticides or something” Takanori Ichiba (39)
“We’ll never make it. If we wait for the ambulance we’re done for” Naoyuki Ogata (28)
“It’d be pathetic to die like this” Michiru Kono (53)
“The day of the gas attack was my sixty-fifth birthday” Kei’ichi Ishikura (65)
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: KODEMMACHO STATION TRAIN UNIDENTIFIED
“I saw his face and thought: ‘I’ve seen this character somewhere’” Ken’ichi Yamazaki (25)
“He was such a kind person. He seemed to get even kinder before he died” Yoshiko Wada (31) wife of the late Eiji Wada
“He was an undemanding child” Kichiro Wada (64) and Sanae Wada (60) parents of the late Eiji Wada
“Sarin! Sarin!” Koichiro Makita (34)
“The very first thing that came to mind was poison gas—cyanide or sarin” Dr. Toru Saito (b. 1948)
“There is no prompt and efficient system in Japan for dealing with a major catastrophe” Dr. Nobuo Yanagisawa (b. 1935) Head, School of Medicine, Shinshu University, Nagano Prefecture
BLIND NIGHTMARE: WHERE ARE WE JAPANESE GOING?
1 What Happened in the Tokyo Subway on March 20, 1995?
2 Why Did I Look Away from the Aum Cult?
3 The Handed-Down Self: the Allocated Narrative
4 Memory
5 What Can I Do?
6 Overwhelming Violence
7 Underground
PART TWO THE PLACE THAT WAS PROMISED
“An Old Man Awake In His Own Death” by Mark Strand
Preface
“I’m still in Aum” Hiroyuki Kano (b. 1965)
“Nostradamus had a great influence on my generation” Akio Namimura (b. 1960)
“Each individual has his own image of the Master” Mitsuharu Inaba (b. 1956)
“This was like an experiment using human beings” Hajime Masutani (b. 1969)
“In my previous life I was a man” Miyuki Kanda (b. 1973)
“‘If I stay here,’ I thought, ‘I’m going to die’” Shin’ichi Hosoi (b. 1965)
“Asahara tried to force me to have sex with him” Harumi Iwakura (b. 1965)
“No matter how grotesque a figure Asahara appears, I can’t just dismiss him” Hidetoshi Takahashi (b. 1967)
Books by Haruki Murakami
ALSO BY HARUKI MURAKAMI
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