Twenty-nine years ago today, on April 25, 1996 (March 8, 1996 in the lunar calendar), Shohoro Asahara, the leader of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo Church, was put on trial. The scene of the trial of Shohoro Asahara in the painter's painting. Shohoro Asahara, the leader of the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo Church, was arrested for crimes such as poison gas in the Tokyo subway. On April 25, 1996, he finally appeared in court. Due to the complexity of the case and the cumbersome nature of Japanese law, the trial of Shohoro Asahara may continue into the next century. The hearing is the first time that Shohoro Asahara has been put on trial since his arrest in 1995, and the first time he has appeared in public. A subway station near the Tokyo District Court. As the trial began, Tokyo introduced tight security measures. Shohoro Asahara, formerly known as Tomotsu On March 20, 1995, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department searched all the facilities of Aum Shinrikyo, believing that Aum Shinrikyo was involved in the poison gas case. During the search, a large number of materials and items were confiscated. A bus took Asahara to the Tokyo District Court for trial. A large number of journalists gathered in front of the courthouse to interview Asahara and marched him into the courtroom. He was handcuffed, wearing a fat blue prison uniform, and his long hair covered his expressionless face. When the judge asked if his name was "Tomitsuko Matsumoto", he replied in a low voice: "I don't use that name for a long time." The judge asked again: "Where do you live?" He replied: "I don't remember." The trial began with the reading of a long list of 3,807 people who had been victims of sarin gas. After reading the list, the court asked Asahara to defend himself. Since Japan does not have a jury system and Asahara's case is complex, the court deliberately sent four judges to participate in the trial instead of the usual three. Of the 12 lawyers who appeared in court to defend Asahara, only a few were voluntary, most of the others were appointed by the court, including one who was appointed as Asahara's sole defence counsel in October 1995. But on the eve of the trial, he was fired by Asahara, which prevented the court from holding the trial as scheduled. Asahara Shoho