Issue #0

Underground

The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

Plot

In spite of the perpetrators’ intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only 12 people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. The novelist Haruki Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day. He also interviews members and ex-members of the doomsday cult responsible in the hope that they might be able to explain the reason for the attack and how it was that their guru instilled such devotion in his followers.