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The article ends implying the Japanese media is wrong by downplaying and leaving out the name of the church, but when I was reading more on wikipedia about the Unification Church they referenced this article from the media, which I will need to translate but would seem to refute this:

https://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/97322

For those who are in Japan is that a good take by the author of the submitted article? Is (edit: it fair to say) the media hiding the connection?

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I am in Japan, have been watching the news, and this is the first time I’d seen the Unification Church named as the motive. My impression has also been that the domestic media is downplaying the connection.

Naming a cult on media is a taboo in Japan, for fear of retaliations and verbal abuses than as common courtesy.

There even used to be a P2P app called Perfect Dark, known in a... different... name early on, so as to make it 'immune to police prosecution'. Eventually the name changed to what it is, and stories of police working on it did start appearing. That was 2010s.

What was the previous name of Perfect Dark?

it was called "Share" and before that there was WinNy, a fork of the WinMX p2p client.

It was a four letter name that I’m not comfortable posting here…

Sorry, I don't understand. Why is it uncomfortable to name a piece of software?

Oh no. I failed to include that part in the original comment. The logic was that the name(think “LordVoldemort.exe”) cannot be aired or published, so authorities cannot communicate arrests to the public, which makes it moot to do so, thereby shielding the users.

So would something bad happen if you posted the name..?

Perfect dark still exists.

Gendai is regarded in Japan as a "tabloid" (think National Enquirer). So the mainstream media in Japan can be accused of hiding the connection.

More explanation here: https://twitter.com/wdavidmarx/status/1545956836310159360

Thank you, I am sure there is a lot of context I don’t understand as an outsider.

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