22 Facts About Yoshihiro Inoue

Yoshihiro Inoue was a former Aum Shinrikyo leader and terrorist who was executed in Japan in 2018.

Yoshihiro Inoue was responsible for coordinating the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995.

Yoshihiro Inoue's father was a serious person, but he did not feel at home, and he and his wife often quarreled.

Yoshihiro Inoue was impressed by Shoko Asahara and felt that Asahara was like an ideal parent.

Yoshihiro Inoue wanted to be ordained immediately, but after negotiations between his parents and Asahara, his parents decided that he would be ordained after leaving university, and he used a recommendation to enter the Faculty of Law at Nippon Bunka University.

Yoshihiro Inoue worked as a delivery rider for "Aum's Bento Shop".

Yoshihiro Inoue was involved in the illegal line of Vajrayana since the time of the Ishigaki Island Seminar in 1990.

Yoshihiro Inoue was involved in a series of Aum Shinrikyo cases, including the attack on a parking lot owner, the murder of a company employee, the attack on a victim's association president, the arrest and confinement death of the notary public's office manager, and the sarin gas attack on the subway.

Yoshihiro Inoue was involved in the Shinjuku Station cyanide gas incident and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government parcel bombing as the ringleader.

Yoshihiro Inoue was promoted to the rank of Shogo Guru in a notice issued by the Venerable Master three days before the sarin gas attack.

Yoshihiro Inoue was specially wanted for the arrest and confinement death of the notary public's office manager.

Yoshihiro Inoue was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Tokyo District Court on June 6,2000, after pleading guilty to the charge of arrest and confinement but not to the charge of arrest and confinement manslaughter in the case of the Meguro Notary Public Office clerk, and remaining in a liaison role in the sarin gas attack.

In 2011, after the death penalty was confirmed, Yoshihiro Inoue sent a letter to the eldest son of the victim in the case of the arrest and confinement death of the office manager of the notary office through a concerned person.

Yoshihiro Inoue testified that he had told his defense attorney about the possibility that Nakagawa had killed the office manager since his first trial, but that his attorney had stopped him from telling anyone else.

At the first trial of Naoko Kikuchi, who was accused of involvement in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government parcel bombing case, Yoshihiro Inoue testified that Yasuo Koike asked him to get the approval of the believers he was helping to see if they were ready to be arrested, and that Yoshihiro Inoue got the approval of the two female believers and Nakagawa got the approval of Kikuchi.

Yoshihiro Inoue testified that she was not surprised when Inoue showed Kikuchi the explosives and offered words of condolence.

On June 30,2014, the Tokyo District Court ruled that Yoshihiro Inoue's testimony was credible and that it was based on the fact that he was aware that Kikuchi was going to commit the crime.

Later, the Tokyo High Court of the second instance, in its judgment on November 27,2015, stated that Yoshihiro Inoue's testimony was "unnaturally detailed and specific, while many people's memories of that time are vague," and that its credibility should be carefully judged.

Yoshihiro Inoue denied this and claimed that Nakagawa had it in his possession.

Until March 14,2018, all 13 death row inmates in the Aum Shinrikyo case, including Yoshihiro Inoue, were incarcerated at the Tokyo Detention House.

Yoshihiro Inoue was executed at Osaka Detention House at the age of 48, on the morning of July 6,2018.

Yoshihiro Inoue's body was cremated two days later after being taken in by his parents.