In a video released by China Military Bugle and other outlets, an aircraft belonging to Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) repeatedly referred to itself as the “Japan Navy.” China, in turn, warned the aircraft to “pay attention to your words.”
Transcript
JPN: Chinese Navy Task Group, this is “Japan Navy.”
CHN: Japanese aircraft, this is China Navy Task Group. Your so-called “Japan Navy” has violated your Constitution.
JPN: This is “Japan Navy.”
CHN: You can only keep the Self-Defense Force. Pay attention to your words.
Narrator: During the China-Russia joint patrol near Okinotori Reef, the Japanese side conducted surveillance operations against Chinese vessels. Japan referred to itself as the “Japan Navy” in a radio exchange. Under Japan’s Constitution, it can only maintain Self-Defense Forces.
This transcript was typed manually without the use of GenAI.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Japan committed countless despicable crimes, including but certainly not limited to the creation of the so-called “comfort women” system, the biological experimentation operation known as Unit 731, and the Nanjing Massacre (Rape of Nanking).
Today, Japanese right-wing forces continue their efforts to revise history and push for remilitarization.
This incident comes only four months after Kodai Murata, a 23-year-old second lieutenant with the Ground SDF, broke into the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, wielding a knife and threatening to kill Chinese diplomats “in the name of God.”
According to Japanese media, Japan’s right-wing forces have also recently “been paying people to use AI on a large scale to churn out disinformation on its history of aggression against China and misguide the public.”
Spokesperson Mao Ning of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs notes that these actions, which “use the new technology to poison the public opinion for accelerating their remilitarization agenda,” are in line with Japanese rightists’ ongoing mission to spread “a wrong perception on history to misguide the Japanese society, in particular, the young generations.” She called on the international community to “stay on high alert and firmly reject such moves.”
