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| Pt. 1 | Underground | |
| Map of the Tokyo Subway | ||
| Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Chiyoda Line | 9 | |
| Kiyoka Izumi: Nobody was dealing with things calmly | 12 | |
| Masaru Yuasa: I've been here since I first joined | 18 | |
| Minoru Miyata: At that point Takahashi was still alive | 24 | |
| Toshiaki Toyoda: I'm not a sarin victim, I'm a survivor | 28 | |
| Tomoko Takatsuki: It's not even whether or not to take the subway, just to go out walking scares me now | 36 | |
| Mitsuteru Izutsu: The day after the gas attack, I asked my wife for a divorce | 41 | |
| Aya Kazaguchi: Luckily I was dozing off | 45 | |
| Hideki Sono: Everyone loves a scandal | 48 | |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Marunouchi Line (Destination: Ogikubo) | 52 | |
| Mitsuo Arima: I felt like I was watching a programme on TV | 55 | |
| Kenji Ohashi: Looking back, it all started because the bus was two minutes early | 58 | |
| Soichi Inagawa: That day and that day only I took the first door | 65 | |
| Sumio Nishimura: If I hadn't been there, somebody else would have picked up the packets | 68 | |
| Koichi Sakata: I was in pain, yet I still bought my milk as usual | 73 | |
| Tatsuo Akashi: The night before the gas attack, the family was saying over dinner, "My, how lucky we are" | 76 | |
| Shizuko Akashi: Ii-yu-nii-an (Disneyland) | 84 | |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Marunouchi Line (Destination: Ikebukuro) | 91 | |
| Shintaro Komada: "What can that be?" I thought | 93 | |
| Ikuko Nakayama: I knew it was sarin | 97 | |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Hibiya Line (Departing: Naka-Meguro) | 102 | |
| Hiroshige Sugazaki: "What if you never see your grandchild's face?" | 105 | |
| Kozo Ishino: I had some knowledge of sarin | 110 | |
| Michael Kennedy: I kept shouting "Please, please, please!" in Japanese | 115 | |
| Yoko Iizuka: That kind of fright is something you never forget | 120 | |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Hibiya Line (Departing: Kita-Senju; Destination: Naka-Meguro) | 125 | |
| Noburu Terajima: I'd borrowed the down payment, and my wife was expecting - it looked pretty bad | 128 | |
| Masanori Okuyama: In a situation like that the emergency services aren't much help at all | 132 | |
| Michiaki Tamada: Ride the trains every day and you know what's regular air | 135 | |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Hibiya Line | ||
| Takanori Ichiba: Some loony's probably sprinkled pesticides or something | 139 | |
| Naoyuki Ogata: We'll never make it. If we wait for the ambulance we're done for | 143 | |
| Michiru Kono: It'd be pathetic to die like this | 148 | |
| Kei'ichi Ishikura: The day of the gas attack was my sixty-fifth birthday | 154 | |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Subway: Kodemmacho Station | ||
| Ken'ichi Yamazaki: I saw his face and thought: "I've seen this character somewhere" | 159 | |
| Yoshiko Wada, widow of Eiji Wada: He was such a kind person. He seemed to get even kinder before he died | 165 | |
| Kichiro Wada and Sanae Wada, parents of Eiji Wada: He was an undemanding child | 175 | |
| Koichiro Makita: Sarin! Sarin! | 181 | |
| Dr. Toru Saito: The very first thing that came to mind was poison gas - cyanide or sarin | 186 | |
| Dr. Nobuo Yanagisawa: There is no prompt and efficient system in Japan for dealing with a major catastrophe | 191 | |
| Blind Nightmare: Where Are We Japanese Going? | 195 | |
| Pt. 2 | The Place that was Promised | |
| Hiroyuki Kano: I'm still in Aum | 217 | |
| Akio Namimura: Nostradamus had a great influence on my generation | 229 | |
| Mitsuharu Inaba: Each individual has his own image of the Master | 239 | |
| Hajime Masutani: This was like an experiment using human beings | 251 | |
| Miyuki Kanda: In my previous life I was a man | 261 | |
| Shinichi Hosoi: "If I stay here," I thought, "I'm going to die" | 272 | |
| Harumi Iwakura: Asahara tried to force me to have sex with him | 285 | |
| Hidetoshi Takahashi: No matter how grotesque a figure Asahara appears, I can't just dismiss him | 295 | |
| Afterword | 305 |
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Levi Mclaughlin
reviewed Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche on December 09, 2010 Underground
Amazing, thoughtful compilation of interviews conducted by Murakami. While the accounts of the gas attack itself are both shocking and fascinating, it also gives invaluable insight into what it means to be Japanese and the life that is expected of you. In fact, when reading the rigid and all-prevailing work ethic of the commuters on their way to work on the doomed trains, the sense of entrapping routine makes you wonder how 'crazy' the interviewed Aum members are for wanting to escape it. A cult may be written off as a collective conscience of weak robotic drones, but take a closer look at 'the Japanese Psyche' as the ill-fated commuters desperately try to ignore their symptoms as they continue struggling to work, in many cases half-blind and unable to walk.
Having said that, Murakami doesn't sugar-coat the Aum members in his interviews and asks them some difficult questions; and rightly so, terrorism is never acceptable. To plea unawareness and blame higher-ups is how the Holocaust happened. But from what is meticulously presented in the book, there are no winners or losers, only a sense of futile resignation on both sides.
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Add Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche, From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound. In March of 1995, agents o, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche, From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound. In March of 1995, agents o, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche to your collection on WonderClub |
