The Foreign Affairs Ministry's cultural affairs department was set up with reparation money from the Boxer Rebellion, when it was agreed by the eight-nation allied forces to allow part of the funds obtained from the Manchu government to be spent on China.
外務省文化事業部的成立導源於八國聯軍的庚子賠款，當時各國協議，將得之於滿清的部分賠償金回饋中國。