JapanToday.com – Sponsored By The Church Of Scientology?

Ken Y-N has investigated recent incidents over at JapanToday.com and has found a bizarre connection between the site and the Church of Scientology. In addition to running Scientology advertisements that the Japan Today editors claimed could not be blocked (an untrue statement), the site has been deleting negative comments about Scientology. Yesterday a bizarre editorial about moral education ran on the site:

However, the final straw was the commentary piece published today, Japan in need of moral education, by Peter Zimmatore. I read it and thought the whole article sounded a bit fishy, so I did a web search for the Metempiric Foundation and turned up just one other hit, an event that sounds like some sort of vaguely religious gathering. This caused me to merely roll my eyes, but searching for the author’s name turns up a lot of Scientology-related hits. Whilst I fully understand that there may be other people in the world with the same name as him and I am most willing to be corrected in my assumptions, I can only conclude that this article has been written by a member of the Church of Scientology.

Is Japan Today profiting from the publication of Scientology recruitment ads?