41.   Suspicion for the subway attack has increasingly focused on a religious sect called Aum Shinrikyo.

42.   The children said that since the subway attack they had grown accustomed to being despised and rejected.

43.   The defendant told Seiichi Endo of the Health and Welfare Ministry to produce a fresh batch of sarin for the Tokyo subway attack.

44.   The government said Friday that there was no possibility that the two were involved in the subway attack, saying that both were on duty that day.

45.   The government has been criticized for its slow response to the subway gas attack, and several senior Aum members sought by the police are still at large.

46.   The police are not known to have much evidence specifically linking Aum members to the subway attack.

47.   The police, as has been their custom, did not arrest the lawyer, Yoshinobu Aoyama, on charges related to the subway attack.

48.   The police already have in custody three of those they believe were directly involved in the subway attack, including Inoue, according to Japanese news reports.

49.   The police also found the solvent at the scene of the subway attack.

50.   The police also took into custody a woman at the Tokyo office of Aum Shinrikyo, but on minor charges unrelated to the subway attack.