TOKYO--NTT East Japan, the local access provider of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT), is declining to install a telephone line in a premises owned by Japan's Aum Shinrikyo. The cult shot to fame in 1995 when it released Sarin nerve gas on the Tokyo subway.
A spokesman for NTT East Japan told Newsbytes the company is not breaking its universal service obligation to provide lines.
"The agreement between us and the user states that if there is sufficient problems and we cannot complete installation, we can decline to provide service," he said. In this case, the problems were those caused by residents of Fujioka in Gunma prefecture who surrounding NTT engineers when they attempted to install the line and prevented them from completing the job.
Residents in towns across Japan where the cult is attempting to establish compounds are opposing the moves and using such tactics in an attempt to get them to move on to another area.
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