The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe

Post by damagednoob » Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 9:51 AM UTC

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Your thinly veiled accusation of racism notwithstanding, I don’t think there’s anything morally deplorable in thinking the media should help the public build a more statistically representative model of the world we live in, regardless of the cultural background of criminals. As an example, I don’t think the demographic of young white guys fare too well in the mass shooter statistic, but omitting this reality isn’t o…

Post by Aeolun » Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 9:51 AM UTC

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TL;DR Shinzo Abe was associated with a religious group 'Church of Unification'... that motivated Tetsuya Yamagami to target and kill Shinzo Abe. Yamagami told investigators that he blamed a “religious group” (i.e. the Unification Church) for inducing his mother to donate so much money that it bankrupted the family. He initially prepared to kill a church leader, but gave up after deciding it was too difficult. Yamagam…

Abe was not supposed to be here, his speech was planned to happen in another city but instead it was decided to go to Nara the evening before. The killer couldn't have planned to kill Abe.

Post by sacrosancty » Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 9:54 AM UTC

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Is it? In most democracies in the world there are things you cannot publish even if they are true - Britain for example still maintains an official state censor, and even in the US there are still some state secrets that you cannot publish regardless of how true they are . Britain and many other countries also maintain a right to privacy that protects non-public-figure individuals against salacious soap-opera tabloid…

> and even in the US there are still some state secrets that you cannot publish regardless of how true they are That is simply not true. There are many examples where USA newspapers published leaked secrets and the journalist were not convicted for it in any case. The Pentagon Papers come to mind as the most famous example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers

Post by thematrixturtle » Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 9:59 AM UTC

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not really. Japan runs under a unitary government that has almost exclusively been controlled by a single party since the post-war era. The US is a federalized country with quite big cultural differences between states, and at least alternates between two major parties, and frequently shifting administrations. You can at most get canceled by one side. Japan is centralized and monolithic to an extent that really has n…

> Japan is centralized and monolithic to an extent that really has no parallel in any other democratic country Singapore? The press doesn’t just toe the official line, they actively attack opposite viewpoints.

Post by 0dayz » Sun, Jul 10, 2022, 10:01 AM UTC

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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 (…

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.