was a member and deputy leaderChicago Tribune, April 19, 1995, evening update of the Japanese doomsday-cult group

Aum Shinrikyo , formerly , is a Japanese doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was found to have been responsible for the Matsumoto sarin attack the previous year. The group says tha ...

. Hayakawa was born in

Hyōgo Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and has a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to the southeast, an ...

in 1949. After Aum Shinrikyo adopted a "ministry system", he was the Minister of Construction. Hayakawa was the person behind the organization's uranium mining at Banjawarn in Australia. Convicted for his participation in the

Sakamoto family murder On November 5, 1989, Tsutsumi Sakamoto (坂本堤 ''Sakamoto Tsutsumi'' April 6, 1956 – November 5, 1989), a lawyer working on a class action lawsuit against Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult in Japan, was murdered, along with his wife Satoko and ...

and several other crimes, Hayakawa was executed on July 6, 2018, at

Fukuoka Detention House is a correctional facility in Sawara-ku, Fukuoka. A part of the penal system of Japan, it is operated by the Ministry of Justice. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is in this facility. Notable prisoners * Akira Nishiguchi (Hanged 11 Decem ...

Early life

Hayakawa was born in

in 1949. His father was a staff member of the National

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. In 1952, his family moved to

Sakai, Osaka is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It has been one of the largest and most important seaports of Japan since the medieval era. Sakai is known for its keyhole-shaped burial mounds, or kofun, which date from the fifth century and inclu ...

. Hayakawa earned his

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Kobe University , also known in the Kansai region as , is a leading Japanese national university located in the city of Kobe, in Hyōgo Prefecture, Hyōgo. It was established in 1949, but the academic origins of Kobe University trace back to the establishment of ...

. Then he went to the Graduate School of

Osaka Prefecture University (OPU), also abbreviated to , is one of the largest public universities in Japan. The main campus is among big Kofun tombs in Sakai, Osaka. The university will merge with Osaka City University to form Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU) in A ...

. After graduation, he was hired by a giant

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Joining Aum Shinrikyo

In 1986, interested in

Shoko Asahara , born , was the founder and leader of the Japanese doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo. He was convicted of masterminding the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and was also involved in several other crimes. Asahara was sentenced ...

's so-called

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, Hayakawa contacted the , which then became

. After a phone conversation with Asahara, he was touched by his sincerity and decided to join Aum Shinrikyo. In following years, Hayakawa was believed to be involved in a series of crimes committed by Aum Shinrikyo, including killing a former member of Aum Shinrikyo called Shuji Taguchi and the

. In 1990, after the campaign for election of Aum Shinrikyo turned into a fiasco, this cult group decided to overthrow the government of Japan by force. To help Aum Shinrikyo's plan, Hayakawa went to

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. To get access to the technical documents of military equipment, he presented some high-performance computers to

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT; russian: Московский Физико-Технический институт, also known as PhysTech), is a public research university located in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It prepares speciali ...

. Finally, he not only knew the synthesis method of

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, but also succeeded to get the design drawing of a type of

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. He even helped Aum Shinrikyo purchase a

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helicopter. As the deputy leader of Aum Shinrikyo, Hayakawa arrived in Western Australia in April 1994, and then purchased an area of nearly 2000 square kilometers known as the

Banjawarn Station Banjawarn Station is a remote cattle station in Western Australia, that previously operated as a sheep station. In the 1990s Banjawarn was owned by the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, and following the Tokyo subway attack was the subject ...

. The organization started mining uranium thereWilliam J. Broad
"Seismic Mystery in Australia: Quake, Meteor or Nuclear Blast?"
''The New York Times'', 21 January 1997 - apparently even before the sale was finalized. In his personal notes, Hayakawa praised the high quality of the uranium ore in Australia, although it referred to the state of South Australia, not to Banjawarn (which is in another state). According to media reports from 1995, sheep carcasses in Banjawarn showed signs of exposure to

sarin Sarin (NATO designation GB G-series, "B"">Nerve_agent#G-series.html" ;"title="hort for Nerve agent#G-series">G-series, "B" is an extremely toxic synthetic organophosphorus compound.Tokyo subway attack. Hayakawa was arrested in Japan on April 19, 1995, shortly after the

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(and exactly on the day of the

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, although no relation between Aum Shinrikyo and the bombing is known). He was sentenced to death in 2000. In 2009, his appeal was dismissed. Hayakawa was executed on July 6, 2018, at

References

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Early life

Joining Aum Shinrikyo

See also

References