# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shoko-asahara
# Generated: 2026-09-03T20:13:49.360Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shoko-asahara"
name: "Shōkō Asahara"
slug: "shoko-asahara"
description: "Shoko Asahara , born Chizuo Matsumoto , was a Japanese cult leader and terrorist who founded and led the doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo. He was convicted of masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway which killed 14 people and injured thousands more, and was also involved in several other assassinations and terrorist attacks. Asahara was sentenced to death in 2004, and his final appeal failed in 2011. In June 2012, his execution was postponed due to further arrests of Aum members. He was ultimately executed along with other senior members of Aum Shinrikyo on July 6, 2018."
tagline: "Founder of the Japanese new religious group Aum Shinrikyo"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-03-02"
deathDate: "2018-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           61.08
  momentum:             2.160596478583086
  historical:           27.174588
  currentAttention:     7.798256044391596
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8702554/"
    handle:    "nm8702554"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "أساهارا شوكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шоко Асахара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "শোকো আসাহরা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Šókó Asahara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shoko Asahara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shōkō Asahara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shoko Asahara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shōkō Asahara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shōkō Asahara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shōkō Asahara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shoko Asahara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoko_Asahara"
    title: "Shoko Asahara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dk%C5%8D_Asahara"
    title: "Shōkō Asahara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BA%BB%E5%8E%9F%E5%BD%B0%E6%99%83"
    title: "麻原彰晃"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%91%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%90%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Сёко Асахара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "아사하라 쇼코"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoko_Asahara"
    title: "Shoko Asahara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Šoko Asahara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311669"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump