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Sakamoto Family Murder
Sakamoto family cenotaph
Location
Isogo-ku, Yokohama, Japan
Date
November 5, 1989 (1989-11-05) 3:07 a.m. – 3:20 a.m.
Target
Sakamoto family (3 people)
Attack type
Mass murder, home invasion
Weapons
Hammer, potassium chloride syringes
Deaths
3
Victims
Tsutsumi Sakamoto, 33
Satoko Sakamoto, 29
Tatsuhiko Sakamoto, 14 months
Perpetrators
Aum Shinrikyo members
Motive
To prevent Sakamoto from suing Aum Shinrikyo
Tsutsumi Sakamoto
坂本 堤
Tsutsumi Sakamoto (right), wife Satoko (left) and son Tatsuhiko (center)
Born
(1956-04-06)6 April 1956
Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
Died
5 November 1989(1989-11-05) (aged 33)
Isogo-ku, Yokohama, Japan
Cause of death
Suffocation
Body discovered
March 1995
Occupation
Lawyer
On November 5, 1989, Tsutsumi Sakamoto (坂本 堤 Sakamoto Tsutsumi April 6, 1956 – November 5, 1989), 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 child Tatsuhiko, by perpetrators who broke into his apartment. Six years later, following the 1995 attack on the Tokyo subway, the murderers were uncovered and it was established that the murderers had been members of Aum Shinrikyo at the time of the crime.
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