Japan's Foreign And Security Policy Of The United Nations

Japanese government issued its first Diplomacy Blueprint in 1957, releasing the well-known three principles for Diplomacy: UN-Centric, coordinating with the West and the member of Asia. The whole world had give much expectations to UN, but UN's role in the post-world warⅡera was very limited. In fact, in the real international arena, no country will really put UN at its centre of diplomacy. So from the diplomatic and security perspective, it's very uncommon for Japan to pronounce the UN-Centric principle. To understand this, we must probe into the domestic political environment. After the historical analysis, in terms of the major diplomatic and security issue,we find that all the parties in Japan have been using UN as the legitimacy foundation of their policies. So the essence of UN-Centric is to coordinate Japan's diplomatic and security policy with UN Chapter rather than putting UN at the center of Japan's diplomacy.UN-Centric is an slogan, but its role is very important. During the cold war, the ruling conservative party was very successful in providing the legitimacy for Japan-US alliance based on UN Chapter and softening the pressure from the public and opposition parties. Most importantly, Japan had expanded its self-defense scope under the name of UN peacekeeping mechanism.In a word, UN-Centric is absolutely not the expedient excuse to beautify the Japan-US alliance. To the contrary, Japan has much deeper political consideration. In the short run, Japan can make Japan-US alliance legal by citing UN Chapter , and reduce the pressure from the public and opposition parties. In the long run, once Japan-US alliance break up or be destroyed, Japan can shoulder the self-defense under the name of UN. The Asian neighboring countries'opposition will also be reduced to the lowest point.