Jul 26, 1995 · TOKYO — A 30-year-old man told a court Tuesday that gangsters hired him to kill the top scientist in the doomsday cult accused of spreading nerve gas in Tokyo subways. Hiroyuki Jo originally told...

Hiroyuki Jo (徐裕行, Jo Hiroyuki, Korean: 서유행; Seo Yoo-hyeng; born May 25, 1965) is a Zainichi Korean member of Shinshushieikan (神洲士衛館), an uyoku organization, and the Mie Prefecture-based Hane-gumi branch of Yamaguchi-gumi, a yakuza organization.

Jul 26, 2023 · Hence, 29-year-old Hiroyuki Jo, of Korean descent, was immediately taken into custody, where he revealed he was a member of the largest right-wing organized crime group in Japan, Yamaguchi-Gumi.

Jul 26, 2023 · Hiroyuki Jo, a 29-year-old Korean man, was immediately apprehended as part of the largest right-wing organized crime group in Japan, Yamaguchi-Gumi. Hiroyuki claimed that former leader Kenji Kamimine ordered him to kill as many prominent Aum Shinrikyo leaders as he could due to their brutal actions, although neither of the two has been verified.

Murai was mortally wounded when an ethnic Korean man named Hiroyuki Jo (徐裕行 Jo Hiroyuki), a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi (the largest organized crime yakuza group in Japan), stabbed Murai repeatedly, in the presence of 10 police officers and about a hundred reporters recording the events and broadcasting them live.

Apr 24, 1995 · Police immediately arrested Hiroyuki Jo, 29, a South Korean national. Jo reportedly told police he had joined a rightist group last year and “wanted to hurt an Aum leader.”

TOKYO, July 25 -- The man who on live television fatally stabbed a leader of the Japanese cult accused of the March poison subway gas attack pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder. Hiroyuki Jo told the...

Apr 24, 1995 · Police identified the attacker as Hiroyuki Jo, 29, a South Korean national with Japanese residency. He is unemployed and has no permanent residence, police said. The attacker pushed through a throng of reporters staking out the cult's Tokyo's headquarters and slashed repeatedly at Murai with a kitchen knife.

Apr 24, 1995 · His identification cards indicated that his name was Hiroyuki Jo, a South Korean national living in Japan, and he described himself to police as a rightist. The sect, Aum Shinrikyo, is the...

Nov 14, 1995 · The Tokyo District Court passed the sentence on Hiroyuki Jo for stabbing to death Hideo Murai, the chief scientist of the Aum Supreme Truth sect, in front of the sect's Tokyo …