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Masaharu Yamada, former chief of the Metropolitan Police Department’s first investigation division, directed the arrest of Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Supreme Truth cult, at a facility in what was then the village of Kamikuishiki, Yamanashi Prefecture, on May 16, 1995.
