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7 years sought for Aum's Kikuchi for bombing

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Prosecutors on June 9 asked the Tokyo District Court to sentence former Aum Shinrikyo fugitive Naoko Kikuchi to seven years in prison for her role in the 1995 parcel bomb attack on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building, saying she deserved "the heaviest punishment possible."

Kikuchi, who acted as a courier for the explosives, was "indispensable" to the attack, they said.

Kikuchi, 42, is accused of complicity in the attack, which maimed a secretary of then-Tokyo Gov. Yukio Aoshima. (The Japan Times)

オウム真理教元信者、菊地直子被告に懲役７年求刑

1995年の東京都庁舎爆破事件に関与したとして起訴されているオウム真理教元信者の菊池直子被告の裁判が６月９日、東京地裁で行なわれ、検察側は懲役７年を求刑した。

The Japan Times ST: June 20, 2014