Underground / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel.
Covers the 1995 Tokyo Gas Attack, during which agents of a Japanese cult released a gas deadlier than cyanide into the subway system, as documented in interviews with its survivors, perpetrators, and victim family members. In March 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway...
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| Other title: | Andāguraundo. English Subtitle on cover: Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese psyche. アンダーグラウンド 約束された場所で : Underground 2. |
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New York :
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2001.
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| Edition: | 1st Vintage international ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Map of the Tokyo subway: Underground: Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Chiyoda line: Nobody was dealing with things calmly / Kiyoka Izumi
- I've been here since I first joined / Masaru Yuasa
- At that point Takahashi was still alive / Minoru Miyata
- I'm not a sarin victim, I'm a survivor / Toshiaki Toyoda
- It's not even whether or not to take the subway, just to go out walking scares me now / Tomoko Takatsuki
- Day after the gas attack, I asked my wife for a divorce / Mitsuteru Izutsu
- Luckily I was dozing off / Aya Kazagucchi
- Everyone loves a scandal / Hideki Sono
- Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Marunouchi line (destination: Ogikubo): I felt like I was watching a program on TV / Mitsuo Arima
- Looking back, it all started because the bus was two minutes early / Kenji Ohashi
- That day and that day only I took the first door / Soichi Inagawa
- If I hadn't been there, somebody else would have picked up the packets / Sumio Nishimura
- I was in pain, yet I still bought my milk as usual / Koichi Sakata
- Night before the gas attack, the family was saying over dinner, "My, how lucky we are" / Tatsuo Akashi
- "Li-yu-nii-an (Disneyland)" / Shizuko Akashi
- Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Marunouchi line (destination: Ikebukuro): "What can that be?" I thought / Shintaro Komada
- I knew it was sarin / Ikuko Nakayama
- Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Hibiya line (departing: Naka-meguro): "What if you never see your grandchild's face?" / Hiroshige Sugazaki
- I had some knowledge of sarin / Kozo Ishiro
- I kept shouting, "Please, please, please!" in Japanese / Michael Kennedy
- That kind of fright is something you never forget / Yoko Lizuka
- Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Hibiya line (departing: Kita-senju; destination: Naka-meguro): I'd borrowed the down payment, and my wife was expecting-it looked pretty bad / Nuburu Terajima
- In a situation like that the emergency services aren't much help at all / Masanori Okuyama
- Ride the trains every day and you know what regular air / Michiaki
- Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Hibiya line: Some crazy's probably sprinkled pesticides or something / Takanori Ichiba
- We'll never make it. If we wait for the ambulance we're done for / Naoyuki Ogata
- It'd be pathetic to die like this / Michiru Kono
- Day of the gas attack was my sixty-fifth birthday / Kei'ichi Ishikura
- Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Kodemmach Station: I saw his face and thought: "I've seen this character somewhere" / Ken'ichi Yamazaki
- He was such a kind person. He seemed to get even kinder before he died / Yoshiko Wada
- He was an undemanding child / Kichiro; Sanae Wada
- Sarin! Sarin! / Koichiro Makita
- Very first thing that came to mind was poison gas-cyanide or sarin / Dr. Toru Saito
- There is no prompt and efficient system in Japan for dealing with a major catastrophe / Dr. Nobuo Yanagisawa
- Blind nightmare: Where are we Japanese going?
- Place that was promised: I'm still in Aum / Hiroyuki Kano
- Nostradamus had a great influence on my generation / Akio Namimura
- Each individual has his own image of the Master / Mitsuharu Inaba
- This was like an experiment using human beings / Hajime Masutani
- In my previous life I was a man / Miyuki Kanda
- "If I stay here," I thought, "I'm going to die" / Shin'ichi Hosoi
- Asahara tried to force me to have sex with him / Harumi Iwakura
- No matter how grotesque a figure Asahara appears, I can't just dismiss him / Hidetishi Takahashi.