TOKYO: The trial began in Japan on Thursday of a former member of Aum Supreme Truth, 19 years after the doomsday cult launched a nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people.

Makoto Hirata, 48, turned himself in at a police station two years ago after spending much of the last two decades on the run.

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