Fabricating "big drama" cannot whitewash historical guilt | New Comic Review
Quick Look
- Popular Japanese dramas and right-wing forces have been accused of tampering with historical memory through film, television, online videos and AI corpora, downplaying the guilt of the war of aggression against China, and attempting to create legitimacy for constitutional amendments and military expansion.
- The historical truth cannot be tampered with.
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Why It Matters
Japan's right-wing forces have long tried to downplay the history of World War II aggression through film, television, education, and official texts.
The popular Japanese drama "Vivant" starring A-list celebrities fabricated the plot of "Chinese people commit violence and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces fight back justly", grafting the torture used by the Japanese invaders on Chinese anti-Japanese comrades onto the image of modern Chinese people. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi actually wanted to see such a ridiculous "drama"? From film and television narratives to online videos to artificial intelligence corpus, the Japanese right wing is deliberately trying to tamper with historical memory. Japan's right-wing forces use financial incentives to produce AI videos that falsify history, and the Japanese government builds a generative AI system for government affairs. However, its official benchmark corpus does not include pre-war archives, surrender documents, and Tokyo trial records as core benchmark texts.
When the July 7th Incident was downplayed as a "Japan-China military conflict," the Nanjing Massacre was called the "Fall of Nanjing," and Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia was packaged as "concern for the resources of the South," it was not only the historical wording that was blurred, but also the guilt of Japan's war of aggression. Japan's Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum plans to change "Nanjing Massacre" to "Nanjing Incident", and the 2026 version of the "Defense White Paper" will package the military industry as a core engine of economic growth. Various actions are intended to dispel the international community's consensus on war crimes and create so-called "legitimacy" for constitutional amendments and military expansion.
Historical truth is not data that can be tampered with at will, and algorithm "poisoning" cannot erase the iron-clad historical facts. Japan's right-wing forces attempt to reconstruct the historical narrative through national resources and cutting-edge technology, which just exposes their guilty conscience and anxiety in the face of historical truth and international legal judgments. History cannot be tampered with, and the guilt of aggression cannot be washed away. Any attempt to "recruit the soul" of militarism will eventually be judged by history.
Open Questions
- What are the specific details of the Japanese government’s adjustments to the AI corpus benchmark text?




