PART ONE UNDERGROUND |
Map of the Tokyo Subway | viii |
Preface | 3 |
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: CHIYODA LINE | 9 |
Kiyoka Izumi: | 12 |
Nobody was dealing with things calmly |
Masaru Yuasa: | 18 |
I've been here since I first joined |
Minoru Miyata: | 24 |
At that point Takahashi was still alive |
Toshiaki Toyoda: | 28 |
I'm not a sarin victim, I'm a survivor |
Tomoko Takatsuki: | 36 |
It's not even whether or not to take the subway, |
just to go out walking scares me now |
Mitsuteru Izutsu: | 41 |
The day after the gas attack, I asked my wife for a divorce |
Aya Kazaguchi: | 45 |
Luckily I was dozing off |
Hideki Sono: | 48 |
Everyone loves a scandal |
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: MARUNOUCHI LINE (DESTINATION: |
OGIKUBO) | 52 |
Mitsuo Arima: | 55 |
I felt like I was watching a programme on TV |
Kenji Ohashi: | 58 |
Looking back,it all started because the bus was |
two minutes early |
Soichi Inagawa: | 65 |
That day and that day only I took the first door |
Sumio Nishimura: | 68 |
If I hadn't been there, somebody else would have |
picked up the packets |
Koichi Sakata: | 73 |
I was in pain, yet I still bought my milk as usual |
Tatsuo Akashi: | 76 |
The night before the gas attack, the family was |
saying over dinner, "My, how lucky we are" |
Shizuko Akashi: | 84 |
Ii-yu-nii-an (Disneyland) |
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: MARUNOUCHI LINE (DESTINATION; |
IKEBUKURO) | 91 |
Shintaro Komada: | 93 |
"What can that be?" I thought |
Ikuko Nakayama: | 97 |
I knew it was sarin |
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: HIBIYA LINE (DEPARTING: |
NAKA-MEGURO) | 102 |
Hiroshige Sugazaki: | 105 |
"What if you never see your grandchild's face?" |
Kozo Ishino: | 110 |
I had some knowledge of sarin |
Michael Kennedy: | 115 |
I kept shouting "Please, please, please!" in Japanese |
Yoko Iizuka: | 120 |
That kind of fright is something you never forget |
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: HIBIYA LINE (DEPARTING: |
KITA-SENJU; DESTINATION: NAKA-MEGURO) | 125 |
Noburu Terajima: | 128 |
I'd borrowed the down payment, and my wife was |
expecting it looked pretty bad |
Masanori Okuyama: | 132 |
In a situation like that the emergency services |
aren't much help at all |
Michiaki Tamada: | 135 |
Ride the trains every day and you know what's |
regular air |
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: HIBIYA LINE |
Takanori Ichiba: | 139 |
Some loony's probably sprinkled pesticides or something |
Naoyuki Ogata: | 143 |
We'll never make it. If we wait for the ambulance we're done for |
Michiru Kono: | 148 |
It'd be pathetic to die like this |
Kei'ichi Ishikura: | 154 |
The day of the gas attack was my sixty-fifth birthday |
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: KODEMMACHO STATION |
Ken'ichi Yamazaki: | 159 |
I saw his face and thought: "I've seen this |
character somewhere" |
Yoshiko Wada, widow of Eiji Wada: | 165 |
He was such a kind person. He seemed to get even |
kinder before he died |
Kichiro Wada and Sanaé Wada, parents of Eiji Wada: | 175 |
He was an undemanding child |
Koichiro Makita: | 181 |
Sarin! Sarin! |
Dr Toru Saito: | 186 |
The very first thing that came to mind was poison |
gas cyanide or sarin |
Dr Nobuo Yanagisawa: | 191 |
There is no prompt and efficient system in Japan |
for dealing with a major catastrophe |
Blind Nightmare: | 195 |
Where Are We Japanese Going? |
PART TWO THE PLACE THAT WAS PROMISED |
Preface | 213 |
Hiroyuki Kano: | 217 |
I'm still in Aum |
Akio Namimura: | 229 |
Nostradamus had a great influence on my generation |
Mitsuharu Inaba: | 239 |
Each individual has his own image of the Master |
Hajime Masutani: | 251 |
This was like an experiment using human beings |
Miyuki Kanda: | 261 |
In my previous life I was a man |
Shinichi Hosoi: | 272 |
"If I stay here," I thought, "I'm going to die" |
Harumi Iwakura: | 285 |
Asahara tried to force me to have sex with him |
Hidetoshi Takahashi: | 295 |
No matter how grotesque a figure Asahara appears, |
I can't just dismiss him |
Afterword | 305 |