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KOBAYASHI YOSHIKI
Department Professional Graduate School , Graduate School of Governance Studies Position Professor (non-tenured) |
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| Language | Japanese |
| Publication Date | 2024/07 |
| Type | Book Chapter Paper |
| Invitation | Invited paper |
| Title | (Forthcoming) [ENGLISH] The Lessons Learned From the Tokyo Subway Sarin Gas Terrorist Attack by Aum Shinrikyo on March 29, 1995 |
| Contribution Type | Sole-authored |
| Journal | Cordner, Gray & Wright, Martin (ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Policing Crises and Emergencies |
| Journal Type | Another Country |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Details | This article deals with Aum Shinrikyo’s sarin gas terrorist attack on the subway in Tokyo, Japan, in March 1995. In particular, it will discuss the lessons learned from the incident, mainly from the perspective of police intelligence. When the problem of so-called ‘intelligence failure’ arises, governments often tend to strengthen their intelligence-gathering and analysis capabilities. However, the lessons learned from the sarin gas terrorist attack in Japan show a different story. In that incident, the leading cause of the Japanese police’s intelligence failure was not a lack of intelligence collection or analysis capabilities. Instead, the police failed to provide proper requirements to its intelligence department. After correcting these systemic problems, there have been no terrorist incidents in Japan on the same level as the sarin gas terror attack on the subway. These historical facts may provide supporting evidence for the validity of this argument. |
| URL for researchmap | https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Policing-Crises-and-Emergencies/Cordner-Wright/p/book/9781032207858# |