The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' "dog food" has once again surged, with an application of 87.43 billion yen for the fiscal year 2026

On the 27th, our media reported that Japan has spent a huge amount of money over the years to whitewash its history of aggression and war crimes during World War II. It pointed out that since 2015, the total budget for the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' "Overseas Strategic Information Dissemination" has exceeded 56 billion yen. These funds have been used to buy foreign media, scholars, and politicians, promoting a "pro-Japanese" view of World War II history, as well as cultivating overseas "pro-Japanese" individuals.

However, this is just the tip of the iceberg of Japan's "whitewashing" operations.

According to a report by the Japanese news agency "Jiji Press" on the 27th, in order to strengthen so-called "information warfare response", the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to apply for 87.43 billion yen for the 2026 fiscal year, which is an increase of 15.3% compared to the 2025 fiscal year. Among them, 4.41 billion yen will be used to respond to so-called "foreign false information dissemination and external forces' public opinion operations", to strengthen Japan's propaganda strategy, and to build information infrastructure - in other words, it's just spending money to scatter "dog food".

We had previously introduced that Japan is the country that spends the most on public opinion warfare.

Since the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan has been very good at using public opinion methods to cover up and whitewash its war crimes. For example, they paid to buy media not to report the Port Arthur Massacre, which created a very bad precedent for later denial of the Nanjing Massacre and other atrocities. This path dependence of "refusing to acknowledge historical mistakes but instead trying to whitewash themselves" has continued to this day.

The fundamental purpose of Japan's actions is actually to separate China's War of Resistance against Japan from the global anti-Fascist war, to conform to the Western perspective on World War II history, and to shape a narrative that the global anti-Fascist war only had two major battlefields: Europe and the Pacific, thereby suppressing China's voice as a victorious country.

Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1841661884804167/

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