Japan cult widow speaks 30 years after subway attack

This photo taken on February 24, 2025 shows Yuki Niimi, the widow of Tomomitsu Niimi who was executed in 2018 along with other former members of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo for their roles in the 1995 sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo metro system, posing with a photo of her husband (front) with cult leader Shoko Asahara. - AFP

OSAKA: Only seven years into her marriage did Yuki Niimi first touch her husband - at a morgue where she collected his body after he was executed, and kissed him in a coffin.

Before that a glass screen had always separated her from her death-row spouse Tomomitsu Niimi, a notorious member of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult that 30 years ago orchestrated a nerve agent attack on Japan's capital.