{"id":65399,"date":"2026-04-17T13:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=65399"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:53:37","slug":"japans-foreign-affairs-minister-criticizes-white-house-over-unauthorized-use-of-nintendo-gameplay-footage-in-iran-war-campaign-video-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japans-foreign-affairs-minister-criticizes-white-house-over-unauthorized-use-of-nintendo-gameplay-footage-in-iran-war-campaign-video-on-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s foreign affairs minister criticizes White House over unauthorized use of Nintendo gameplay footage in Iran war campaign video on X\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee meeting held on April 17, Japan\u2019s Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi criticized the White House regarding a recent video posted to their official X account which uses footage from Nintendo\u2019s games (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.47news.jp\/14165595.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kyodo News<\/a>). The video features footage from the United States\u2019 recent attack on Iran intertwined with clips of Nintendo Wii\u2019s launch up screen and Wii Sports gameplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UNDEFEATED. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jt69bcag5y\">pic.twitter.com\/Jt69bcag5y<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2032115039985881556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGenerally, even in the case of public institutions, it is inappropriate to reproduce copyrighted works without the permission of the rightsholder,\u201d minister Motegi commented, though he refrained from making remarks on the contents of the video itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a related note, this isn\u2019t the first time that the Trump administration has used unauthorized copyrighted material of Japanese content for their public relations activities. Last September, the Homeland Security X account and the White House TikTok account used footage and music from the Pok\u00e9mon anime in their <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DHSgov\/status\/1970251208322621530?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promotional video for ICE deportation raids<\/a>. Following the publishing of the controversial video, the Pok\u00e9mon Company issued a statement explaining that the usage of their intellectual property was unauthorized (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8ex9n8gxdwo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BBC<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the White House X account recently posted an image using Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia\u2019s box art modified to show the words \u201cmake America great again,\u201d prompting the Pok\u00e9mon Company to once more deny their involvement with the advertisement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"et\" dir=\"ltr\">MAGA \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u26a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8QRVP23zGu\">pic.twitter.com\/8QRVP23zGu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2029566106650767581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, the official Yu-Gi-Oh! X account also had to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/yu-gi-oh-official-x-account-denies-involvement-with-white-house-justice-the-american-way-video-says-use-of-anime-clip-was-unauthorized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public statement denying the franchise\u2019s involvement<\/a> in the White House\u2019s \u201cJustice The American Way\u201d video depicting footage of US troops\u2019 activities in Iran alongside clips of the titular anime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/white-house-now-using-nintendo-wii-sports-gameplay-clips-juxtaposed-with-war-footage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>White House now\u00a0using\u00a0Nintendo Wii Sports gameplay\u00a0clips\u00a0juxtaposed with\u00a0war footage\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Minister Toshimitsu Motegi recently criticized the White House  for unauthorized use of Nintendo&#8217;s clips on their X account. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":65400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,33],"class_list":["post-65399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news","tag-nintendo"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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