Tokyo, Japan — The Justice Ministry's Public Security Investigation Agency inspected 39 Aum Shinrikyo-related facilities in 2004 and later shared pertinent data with 49 municipal governments, a government report said Friday.
The report approved by the cabinet said the agency carried out the inspections under the so-called Aum surveillance law, which allows the agency to monitor any organization that has committed "indiscriminate mass murder in the past."