Underground
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Main Ideas
- Exploration of human psychology and motivation through interviews with victims and participants of the sarin attack in the Tokyo subway.
- Analysis of Japanese society and its response to crisis situations.
- Issues surrounding the Aum Shinrikyo cult and its influence on people, including the reasons why individuals join destructive cults.
- Reflections on the nature of evil and human vulnerability to it.
- Problems of collective and individual responsibility in society.
- Questions of memory and trauma, and their impact on individuals and society as a whole.

Date of publication: 27 February 2025
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Genre: Non-fiction