Three decades since Shizue Takahashi's husband and a dozen others were killed with a nerve agent on Tokyo's subway, she fears Japan could see a repeat of the doomsday cult attack. Another widow, Yuki Niimi, knows the group that carried out the attack only too well. Her husband was a follower of Aum Shinrikyo and was executed in 2018 for his role in the 1995 gas attack.
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00:30After the surgery, I saw a lot of scars from the treatment.
00:39My uniform was all messed up.
00:42I had a hole in my mouth.
00:49It was cold and I was dead.
01:00The next day, I was told that I had a tumor in my mouth.
01:06I was told to go to the hospital.
01:10I was told to go to the hospital.
01:14I was told to go to the hospital.
01:20When I asked him why the accident happened to me,
01:23he told me,
01:26I was told that my husband was mentally ill.
01:31But in the end, everyone made fun of me.
01:35I think my husband already knew about it.
01:42He told me that he had such a deep thought.
01:46But that's not true.
01:47He was mentally ill.
01:56I was told that I would meet the staff of the funeral home.
02:06So I went to the funeral home.
02:09I was allowed to leave the door of the funeral home.
02:13I touched the door.
02:15It was the first time I touched it.
02:18I was told that I would meet the staff of the funeral home.
02:30The activities of the CART and the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights
02:36are not just the end of the subway accident.
02:40It's something that repeats itself.
02:44I feel a sense of crisis.