The Yokohama family court granted a request by a daughter of Aum Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara to nullify her parents’ right to inherit her property in the event of her death.
The Yokohama family court granted a request by a daughter of Aum Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara to nullify her parents’ right to inherit her property in the event of her death.
Death row inmate Asahara’s fourth daughter, 28, filed the request with the court in an attempt to sever ties with her father, 62, and mother, 59, both senior members of the cult that carried out the deadly 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack. “I now live away from the cult and have not contacted my family or former (cult) members,” the woman, who requested her name be withheld, told a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
