An Icon For Teenage Girls
'During the height of Aum Shinrikyo arrests, Japan's teenage girls found an icon: Joyu Fumihiro, the cult's "Information Minister." They had not the slightest interest in AUM, religious experience or Buddha but were crazy about Joyu because he was a "heart throb" as the press cynically wrote.' (from 'Slapstick on the Precipice: The Ascent of Koizumi Junichiro' by Alex Shishin). ([Full article in Alex Shishin, The Cyber Dust Stories: Lost Internet Stories and Essays Centering on Japan (Smashwords, 2010): http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/33093 Dubbed 'Virtuoso AUM Recruiter' by Asiaweek.
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