Algorithm "poisoning" cannot tamper with historical guilt

China News Service, Beijing, October 31st. The popular Japanese drama "Vivant" ("Special Class") starring A-list stars fabricated the plot of "Chinese people commit violence and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces fight back justly." Such a ridiculous "drama", Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae actually wanted to watch it?

Recently, the second season of Japanese TV station TBS's hit TV series "Vivant" aired a scene in which Chinese personnel cut off the fingers of Japanese intelligence personnel and stabbed their abdomens. These methods are highly consistent with the torture used by the Japanese invaders against Chinese anti-Japanese comrades. However, the drama grafted these evil deeds onto the image of modern Chinese people.

Don’t just treat it as entertainment. Japan’s malicious manipulation of historical memory has already extended its reach to all aspects of society. Over the past few years, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has spent huge sums of money to smear China and distort history, and has formed a mature operating mechanism.

Artificial intelligence technology is supposed to serve the truth, but in the hands of Japan, it has become a tool to cover up crimes and distort history. According to Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" report, Japan's right-wing forces have given explicit incentives. A 30-second AI video that tampered with history is priced at 5,000 yen. The reward for playing negative content related to China for 1,000 times is more than three times that of an ordinary video. The Japanese government spent 4.4 billion yen to build the government affairs generative AI system "Gennai". When building the official benchmark corpus, the starting point for text data collection was set in May 1947, and pre-war archives, surrender documents, and Tokyo trial records were not used as core benchmark texts.

When people look up the historical facts of World War II in the international mainstream model in Japanese, the July 7th Incident may be called the "Japan-China military conflict," the Nanjing Massacre may be called the "Fall of Nanjing," and Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia may be called "concern for southern resources." The weakening of the wording will subtly affect people's understanding of the historical crimes committed by Japan. In this way, Japan attempts to subtly embed right-wing historical views into public cognition.

Japan's actions of tampering with history are also ongoing offline. In 2026, Japan's Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum plans to change "Nanjing Massacre" to "Nanjing Incident" from March 2027. At the same time, Japan's 2026 version of the "Defense White Paper" packages the military industry as the core engine of economic growth. Japanese politicians deliberately amplify regional security differences, continue to exaggerate peripheral security threats, and deliberately try to pave the way for Japan's military expansion in terms of policy and public opinion.

The right-wing conservatism in Japan's political arena has intensified, and the undercurrent of militarism is surging. It attempts to reconstruct the narrative led by the state, making the tampered false history become the official mainstream narrative, dispelling the international community's consensus on war guilt, and concocting so-called "legitimacy" for constitutional revision and military expansion. Japan's various "little actions" over the years have exposed its guilty conscience and anxiety in the face of the ironclad historical truth.