Last week there were reports that Nobuo Kisi allegedly wrote a tweet with condemnation of the APU, in which he compared shelling by the Ukrainian military of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant with the American bombing of Hiroshima. We checked whether the Japanese politician made such a statement.

On August 12, 2022, the following content appeared in social networks and Telegram channels: “The new adviser to the Japanese Prime Minister of National Security and the nuclear disarmament of Nobuo Kisi (former Minister of Defense and the brother of the murdered Shinzo Abe) compared the shelling of the Ukrainian military nuclear power plant with the American bombardment of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (in The alleged Kisi about Nagasaki said nothing. The official urged Kyiv to stop and not to bomb the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in order to prevent a new nuclear disaster. But, apparently, the friendship of Japan with Zelensky is higher, since the post of Kisi deleted in half an hour. But the Internet remembers everything. ”

The picture with the supposedly screenshot of Twita for August 11, which captures the text in Japanese and its automatic translation into English, is attached to these records. The phrase sounds like this: “The world is on the verge of a nuclear disaster! Ukrainian missiles should not explode over the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. Do not repeat America's crimes! Today it can be the last day of humanity ... ”In addition, Kisi allegedly attached a collage of two images: on the left of the ZAS, on the right, black and white photos with the inscription“ Hiroshima after the explosion of the atomic bomb ”, and in the middle of the red arrow, directed from left to right.

Two publications placed large publics on VKontakte, among which "Portfolio of the General Staff" (176,000 subscribers), "Distilled in war" (188 000) and "I am for Putin / Voz" (40,000), as well as Telegram channels: "Military observer" (214 000), Rogandar News (157 000), "Ukraine.ru" (114,000), "Olgerd Semenov | Z " (21,000) and others. About the words of Kisi were told in the program "News" on the channel "Russia 1", as well as a designer and blogger Artemy Lebedev In the video on your YouTube channel. August 16 at the official Twitter account of the Russian Embassy in the UK Wrote about the remote tweet the Japanese politician, and then Removed And your tweet.

To begin with, Nobuo Kisi himself called a screenshot for a fake. “The tweet that spreads the Russian Embassy in the UK did not initially exist. This is a fake. It seems that some users are actively distributing this false hearing, ” - wrote Japanese official on Twitter. Later adviser Commented The already remote entry of the Russian embassy, asking to fix the tweet with a fake screenshot.

We conducted a search for publications on social networks and Telegram and found that the earliest post dedicated to the tweet of Kisi, appeared August 12 at 18:11 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Ponomar" (176,000 subscribers). According to the recording, the subscriber sent the author of the channel the following text: “I am a Japanist, in view of my work I follow politicians. The new adviser to the Prime Minister of National Security and the nuclear disarmament of Nobuo Kisi (the former Minister of Defense and the brother of the murdered Abe), apparently, was seriously concerned about the new nuclear war. He called on Ukraine to stop and not to bomb the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. What introduced me into a stupor, to be honest. But, apparently, the friendship of Japan with Zelensky is higher, since he deleted the post. Twiter lasted half an hour. But the Internet remembers everything, I attach a link and a screen https://twitter.com/kishinobuo/status/1558050777787770433".

Kisi's tweet was allegedly published on the morning of August 11, and was deleted after about 30 minutes. At the same time, the first mention of him appeared only the next day in the evening in RuNet, and all the screenshots that we managed to find on the network are absolutely identical - in other words, these are all copies of the same image. Note that Twitter Kisi has more 254,000 Subscribers, and his posts for June -August usually received thousands of likes, hundreds of retweets and dozens of comments. However, as can be seen in the screenshot, the Twit of the ZAES allegedly received only five likes and zero retweets - these are very low indicators for the account with so many subscribers, even if you take into account that the tweet, as claimed, lasted only half an hour. It is unlikely that such a resonant post from a high -ranking Japanese official would have remained unattended by the public and that no Japanese and foreign media would write about him.

Your investigation Spent Reuters agency. According to our Western colleagues, they were not able to find any evidence of the existence of the Kisi tweet about ZAEC, as well as evidence that other users answered On such a post. We will add that no network user was archiving the link sent by the subscriber of the Telegram channel "Ponomar" nor in Internet Archivenor in Archive.todeTherefore, it is not possible to check whether this link to any tweet was conducted. We could not find the references to the borders of the Russian -language segment of the Internet or on resources not affiliated with state bodies of the Russian Federation.

In addition, we found tweetsin which Japanese -speaking users doubtedthat such a text could generally write a native speaker of the Japanese language. The editors of "Verified" applied for a commentary on the Japaneseist Vasily Shchepkin, Associate Professor of the Department of Oriental Studies and Africanism of the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg. According to him, in the tweet from the screenshot, each sentence separately formally grammatically correctly, but the last sentence, unlike the previous ones, does not sound like a warning: “It looks like a translation from a foreign language, and it is very likely that the Russian phrase“ can easily be read “today can become the last day of humanity”. Google Translate translates it exactly as in tweet, although the Japanese would use the verb "become": なる ".

In addition to analyzing the textual component of tweet, we analyzed the picture itself. Firstly, the low quality of the image immediately catches the eye. It is not clear why the user who took the screenshot did not send him in high resolution. Secondly, the image has traces of editing. For example, there is no more than the right line of the marking of Twitter tape, which is especially noticeable when the image contrast changes. Thirdly, when zming and considering the details, you can notice that all the rounded corners of the pictures attached to the tweet are noticeably distorted. Below are comparisons of the picture under consideration with our screenshot of another tweet of Kisi.

Comparison of tweet screenshots - 1: right real Twit KISI

Comparison of tweet screenshots - 2: right real Twit KISI

Comparison of tweet screenshots - 3: right real Twit KISI

It is likely that someone could replace all the text and numerical data of any tweet of KISI through the page code on Twitter, and then simply added the picture with the help of a graphic editor, but did it inaccurately, so the screenshot was not posted in high quality. This is not done: you just need to find the necessary elements in the code and rewrite them. Below we attach two screenshots: on the first, the original tweet of Kisi, and on the second - our version, the creation of which took several minutes.

If you believe the alleged screenshot of Twita Kisi, the former Japanese Minister of Defense, as an illustration, attached a picture of the consequences of a nuclear strike on Hiroshima to record. However, in reality, the photo on the right is not depicted by Hiroshima, but Nagasaki. In the picture Yosk Yamahaty You can see the famous thoriums - Shinto gates, which stood after the explosion of a nuclear bomb. It is extremely unlikely that a high -ranking Japanese official could confuse cities destroyed by two nuclear bombing. It is noteworthy that if in Google a request in Russian according to Hiroshima after the explosion, then one of the first pictures in the issuance will Just this picture is from Nagasaki. Apparently, this happened due to a mistake in article On the Radio Liberty website*, published in 2020 on the 75th anniversary of the city bombardment.

We managed to find the original photo of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, presented on the left. This frame shot by the drone, demonstrated In the plot of Channel One on August 11 (in a video at 1:36), on the channel website this material published Under the heading of the Zaporizhzhya NPP again under the massive shelling of the Ukrainian security forces. " It is very doubtful that the Japanese official decided to take a frame for his tweet from the plot of the Russian television channel about ZAES, to which the attention of the whole world presses, including Japanese.