(Blogging from school, where I'm overseeing a US History test.)

From the article Japanese Cult Vows to Save a Seal and the World:

In most places where they have stopped, their unusual dress and behavior—they do not believe in bathing, and reportedly eat only instant noodles—has scared the wits out of the locals, for whom memories of another doomsday sect, Aum Shinrikyo, are all too fresh.

Japanese cult, or Caltech students?