Bulletin > Volume 29 Aum Shinrikyō and Its Use of the Media: Five Phases of Development

Watanabe Manabu

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The following essay is based on a presentation made at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Atlanta on 24 November 2003, in a panel on “Developments in the Public-Relations and Growth Strategies of New Religious Movements in Japan.” A Japanese version appeared in the journal “Academia” (No. 78, 2004). It seemed fitting, on the occasions of the tenth anniversary of the sarin attack in the Tokyo Subway System to translate these reflections on the relations between Aum Shinrikyō and media.