“When did he start coming to this club, approximately?” “The spring of ’95,” said Kosuge. “I remember it well because it was after the Kobe earthquake and the Aum terrorist attack.” “Oh . . .” Kido recalled his horror when, only a few short months after the disaster in Kobe, he had seen the news of the Aum Shinrikyo cult releasing sarin gas in the Tokyo subways.
