A FORMER member of Aum Supreme Truth is on trial, 19 years after the doomsday cult's nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway killed 13 people. Makoto Hirata, 48, turned himself in at a police station two ...

A simple change of heart during the few minutes' walk from one Tokyo police station to another could have kept Makoto Hirata, one of Japan's most wanted men, at large indefinitely. It has emerged that ...

TOKYO -- One of Japan's most wanted men surrendered himself to police on New Year's Eve -- only to be turned away by officials who were convinced he was a prankster. The arrest of Makoto Hirata, a ...

Ex-Aum Shinrikyo fugitive Makoto Hirata stayed on the run for 17 years in part because he feared he might be wrongfully charged in the 1995 shooting of the National Police Agency chief if he turned ...

Prosecutors asked Thursday for a 12-year prison term for ex-Aum Shinrikyo fugitive Makoto Hirata, saying that despite his denials, he knew what he was doing when he took part in the “malicious” 1995 ...

Makoto Hirata, 48, turned himself in at a police station two years ago after spending much of the last two decades on the run. He was one of the final fugitives who went into hiding after the ...