Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

Haruki Murakami with Philip Gabriel, Alfred Birnbaum

309 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative reflective slow-paced
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It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. The unthinkable had hap...

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informative 86%
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dark 58%
sad 46%
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emotional 35%
tense 19%
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mysterious 2%
adventurous 1%
hopeful 1%

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