That still doesn’t contradict the critique. In Japan, right-wing religious and nationalist organizations embedding themselves in the LDP is a structural feature of the postwar political system, not an aberration caused by Abe or the Moonies alone. His killing forced temporary public distancing from one cult because it became politically toxic, but it did not dismantle the broader ecosystem of religious-right groups, nationalist NGOs, corporate donors, and political families that mutually reinforce each other inside Japanese bourgeois politics. The LDP didn’t lose power, the funding structures didn’t change, and no permanent mechanism was created to prevent the same relationships from reappearing under different names. So yes, one cult was punished and one figure was removed, but the system that produces those connections in Japan remained untouched, which is exactly why the outcome was cathartic rather than transformative.