A pedestrian walks past a screen flashing news on the execution of Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, in Tokyo on July 6, 2018. - Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult that carried out a deadly sarin attack on Tokyo's subway in 1995, was executed on July 6, two decades after the group's shocking crime. (Photo by Toshifumi KITAMURA / AFP) (Photo credit should read TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images)
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A pedestrian walks past a screen flashing news on the execution of Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, in Tokyo on July 6, 2018. - Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult that carried out a deadly sarin attack on Tokyo's subway in 1995, was executed on July 6, two decades after the group's shocking crime. (Photo by Toshifumi KITAMURA / AFP) (Photo credit should read TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Tokyo CNN  — 

Six members of a Japanese doomsday cult held responsible for the deaths of dozens of people have been executed, according to Japan’s justice minister.

The group’s leader Shoko Asahara – real name Chizuo Matsumoto – was executed earlier in July, along with six other members of the cult, which was responsible for a sarin gas attack on a Tokyo subway in 1995.

Other members of Aum Shinrikyo who had been sentenced to death were hanged Thursday morning, Justice Minister Yoko Kawakami told reporters.