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Aum Shinrikyo (Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia's article on Aum Shinrikyo, community edited. Used here only to corroborate the surveillance renewal timeline for the group's successor organizations, Aleph and Hikari no Wa, under Japan's 1999 anti-Aum law: placed under surveillance beginning January 2000, renewed in 2003 and again from 2015, and the subject of litigation over Hikari no Wa specifically, decided one way by the Tokyo District Court in 2017 and the opposite way by the Tokyo High Court in 2019.

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Author
Wikipedia contributors
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Wikipedia
Publication Year
2026
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo
Source Type
encyclopedia
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3
A community edited tertiary reference, used only to corroborate specific renewal dates already reported by a specialist source, not as the primary basis for the underlying facts.
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