When the United States halted its UN contributions, Japan carried the financial burden. China and South Korea did not. This reveals the distorted reality of the United Nations and Japan’s misplaced trust in it.

2016-02-21

A complete structure has been formed in which people who portray Japan as a country overflowing with hate speech, together with so-called NGOs and the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, deliberately go to the United Nations and seize the opportunity to attack Japan.

There is probably no other country that believes as strongly as Japan that the extremely distorted and strange organization known as the United Nations represents “international society.”

That is precisely why Japan continues to pay, in practical terms, the world’s largest and overwhelming amount of funding to maintain the United Nations.

The fact that the United Nations is an extremely distorted and strange organization is also evident in the results of this situation.

Normally, a country that provides such an overwhelmingly large amount of funding compared to others would be correctly recognized and respected in the international community.

But in Japan’s case, that is not so at all.

Just as the individuals and groups described at the beginning—those who constantly seek to demean and oppress Japan—desire, the United Nations repeatedly issues recommendations against Japan without hesitation.

It is obvious that Western countries do not regard the United Nations in the special way Japan does.

This is clear from the fact that countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, permanent members of the Security Council and core states at the founding of the UN, have calmly stopped paying their assessed contributions.

For reasons of self-interest, or when the UN adopts resolutions contrary to their intentions, or when issues they consider important result, as usual, in much effort with no benefit due to vetoes by China or Russia, the United States, for example, has immediately halted its contributions.

And not for one or two months, but for years at a time.

During those periods, it was Japan that shouldered the burden and worked to maintain the United Nations on behalf of the United States, and it was never China or South Korea.

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