「JICA」の不正確ふせいかくな内容ないようの投稿とうこう SNSで広ひろがる拡散かくさんせず注意ちゅういを

Regarding exchange programs in which domestic municipalities are designated as hometowns of African countries, JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency, which made the designations, has an annual budget of 2.31 trillion yen.

Inaccurate posts such as Abolishing consumption tax can be funded by closures are spreading on social media.

In August, in conjunction with TICAD the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, JICA designated four municipalities in Japan as hometowns for African countries to promote exchange. However, misinformation based on misunderstandings, such as claims that this is a system for settling immigrants, spread on social media.

On social media, it is said that the annual budget is 2.31 trillion yen.

The post stating things like By shutting down JICA, it could be used as one of the sources of revenue for abolishing the consumption tax has been viewed about 3.9 million times as of September 1.

According to JICA, the budget scale for this fiscal year is as follows: approximately 150 billion yen in subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for operating expenses and other costs, and 2.31 trillion yen is expected for yen loan-based financial cooperation, which provides low-interest loans to developing countries.

On social media, information is spreading that this grant aid is the annual budget, but JICA denies this, saying the content of the posts is inaccurate.

In addition, the breakdown of funding sources for Official Development Assistance ODA loans is as follows: approximately 1.88 trillion yen comes from Fiscal Investment and Loan Program funds borrowed from the government at low interest rates; about 300 billion yen comes from self-financing and other sources such as repayments of principal and interest from developing countries; 80 billion yen comes from FILP agency bonds issued by JICA and purchased by investors; and a little over 50 billion yen comes from government equity contributions.

JICA stated, Of this fiscal years project scale, 2.31 trillion yen is yen loan assistance, which is based on the premise of repayment from developing countries.

Japans long-standing cooperation with developing countries has led to global trust in Japan.

In the midst of an increasingly unstable global situation, it is important to gain and maintain trust in Japan.

In June of this year, posts such as If the Children and Families Agency is abolished and dismantled, we could give 10 million yen to each newborn spread on social media. There is a tendency for inaccurate information to spread in claims calling for the abolition of ministries, agencies, or related national organizations, so it is important to be careful not to spread such information carelessly.

When NHK analyzed posts on X about JICA using the SNS analysis tool Brandwatch, it found that posts containing words such as dismantle, abolish, or destroy in reference to JICA exceeded 500,000 including reposts as of 3:00 p.m. on September 1.

Such posts were rarely seen before August, before information based on misunderstandings about the exchange program for designating hometowns began to spread. However, from around the 23rd, the number rapidly increased, and on the 27th, when a demonstration was called in front of the building housing JICA headquarters in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, the number exceeded 120,000 in a single day.