A private university in Tokyo that rejected the enrollment of a daughter of Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara is now discussing ways in which it may accept her, it was learned Friday.
The move comes on the heels of the Tokyo District Court's acknowledgment earlier this week that the 21-year-old woman has a right to study at the college.
Bunkyo University in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward had rejected the enrollment of the third daughter of Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, in late March. The guru has been sentenced to hang for the cult's murderous spree of a decade ago.
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