Japanese police caught Katsuya Takahashi, the last remaining fugitive of the Aum Shinrikyo cult that carried out the 1995 sarin-gas attack on the Tokyo subway, public broadcaster NHK reported.
Takahashi, 54, was apprehended in a coffee shop in Tokyo's Ota ward around 9:15 a.m. today, the report said. Police are planning to formally arrest him on charges including murder, according to NHK.
The capture ends a 17-year manhunt for the last three suspects in a spree of violence by Aum members that culminated in the sarin attack on Tokyo's subway lines, which killed 12 people and sickened thousands. The attack helped shatter postwar myths of a united, peaceful Japan and prompted tougher public security laws.
Takahashi's fellow suspect Naoko Kikuchi, 40, was apprehended on the outskirts of Tokyo on June 3, while police arrested Makoto Hirata, 47, on Jan. 1.
The cult's founder, Shoko Asahara, has been sentenced to death for at least 27 murders attributed to the group. The 57- year-old Asahara, born Chizuo Matsumoto, was the 12th Aum member sentenced to hang for the attacks and has exhausted all his appeals.
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Japanese police caught Katsuya Takahashi, the last remaining fugitive of the Aum Shinrikyo cult that carried out the 1995 sarin-gas attack on the Tokyo subway, public broadcaster NHK reported.
At the Nagoya Castle compound in central Japan, restoration work has been completed on the entrance and reception room of the main residential building for the first time in 70 years. (NHK 
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Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Wednesday raided an Internet casino in Shibuya Ward for offering illegal gambling. (Tokyo Reporter 
The government of Japan has bestowed one of that nation's highest honors on a Japanese-American, a former U.S. Soldier and World War II veteran, for his work furthering relationships between the Japanese and Americans. (army.mil 
Osaka District Court accepted a claim on Thursday that losses on betting on horse racing should be deductible from payouts to calculate taxable income. (Jiji Press 
Eighty-year-old Yuichiro Miura has become the oldest person to scale Mount Everest, his management office said Thursday. (Japan Times 
An 18-year-old youth has been arrested on a charge of attempted murder after he allegedly hit a 16-year-old girl in the head with a baseball bat. (Japan Today 
This Monday, members of the seminal metal band X Japan were in Odaiba rubbing shoulders with the likes of Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga and AKB48′s Yuko Oshima. The catch? They were all made out of wax. (Japan Times 
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has announced that it intends to draw up a set of unified rules for the use of baby strollers on buses and trains. (Japan Today 
A man stabbed his ex-wife on a street in Isehara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday morning, and then caused a car crash while he was fleeing from the scene. (Japan Today 
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