What the records say
- When
- 5 Nov 1989
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 3
- Coordinates
- 35.45° N, 139.63° E
- Description
- 1989 murder in Japan
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Sakamoto family murders
1989 triple murder in Japan
On November 5, 1989, Tsutsumi Sakamoto, a lawyer working on a class action lawsuit against Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult in Japan, was murdered, along with his wife Satoko and his son Tatsuhiko, by perpetrators who broke into his apartment.
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