Abstract
The sarin gas attack in Tokyo in 1995 was the largest-scale terrorist attack ever experienced in Japan and it brought to public attention the problems of the long-term physical and psychological effects on the thousands of innocent victims. In response to this public concern, a survey of the victims was conducted by the Japanese National Police Agency in cooperation with the National Research Institute of Police Science in Japan.
The author of this article was responsible for the process and management of the survey which was supported by a government budget as part of a project on victim assistance. the article gives a description of the group which was responsible for the incident, how its members were organised and how they carried out the attack. There then follows a detailed account of the two-part survey, the procedures adopted and the results.
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