Japan demands withdrawal and apology from U.N.'s insulting recommendations

2020-09-01
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
U.N. Measures ~ Japan demands withdrawal and apology from U.N.'s insulting recommendations
The United Nations human rights organs present a platform for the Japanese to exercise a masochistic view of history.
Among the central U.N. bodies, the Economic and Social Council and its various committees can consult directly with qualified NGOs under Article 71 of the UN Charter.
The Human Rights Council, in particular, has confronted those mentioned above humiliating and threatening recommendations regarding the Coomaraswamy report on comfort women.
Apart from this, several anti-Japanese left-wing organizations and other groups participated in the NGO hearings held by the Committee on the Covenant on Civil Liberties (a subsidiary body of the General Assembly) in July 2014.
These groups include a female student at Korea University in a chima chogori suit calling the Chōsen gakkō free high school exclusion issue a human rights violation and a group accusing Japan of violating human rights about the Specified Secrets Protection Bill and the comfort women issue.
If the U.N. were to take this up, it would be an apparent interference in its internal affairs.
Human rights issues are significant in a democracy and are decided by the Diet and the government, representing the sovereign people.
It is not the United Nations.
Meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council (hereafter referred to as the Security Council) has played no role in Asian security issues.
Japan still needs to be given a permanent seat on the Security Council.
Furthermore, Japan is still an "enemy" under Article 53 and Article 107 of the UN Charter.
The U.N.'s main organs are the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, the International Court of Justice, and the Secretariat.
Article 71 "Private Bodies" of the UN Charter: the Economic and Social Council may make appropriate arrangements for consultation with private bodies concerned with matters within its competence. It may make such accounts with international organizations and, if applicable, with national organizations after consultation with the Member States of the United Nations concerned.
U.N. Enemy Clause: Japan and Germany proposed removing it at the U.N. General Assembly in 1995 and received the most votes.
But it has yet to be achieved or is on the horizon.
It is because it has not been ratified by the member states (two-thirds or 128 countries).
In the charter, "If a former enemy state acts against a war decision or reproduces a policy of aggression, etc., a U.N. member state is permitted to impose military sanctions on that state without the Security Council's permission," it is being blackmailed.
Unfortunately, this is the official position of the U.N.
Despite these problems, Japan contributes significant money (second only to the U.S.) to the U.N.
Japan, a conscientious nation, has willingly paid its entire share of the burden every year without delay.
It does not earn Japan any respect in the international community; it just makes it look light.
On human rights issues, Japan has already received insulting recommendations.
The Coomaraswamy report and the McDougall report, to the same effect, are full of factual errors on the comfort women issue.
Even if one were to assume that for argument's sake, let's take it's true, this was more than 70 years ago, and no problem has arisen today.
If the U.N. had the time to address the ongoing crackdown on the Uighurs in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China's invasion of Tibet would be better.
It is the massacre of its people in the Syrian civil war, the terrorist acts of Islamic extremists in the Middle East, the class action lawsuit of Korean comfort women against the South Korean government at a U.S. military base, and other human rights violations in the Middle East and Ukraine, among others.
Japan should firmly demand that the U.N. retract both reports and apologize.
If it is not accepted, Japan should take a firm stance on the issue, to the extent that it will reconsider the payment of its dues and whether Japan should continue to pay its share of the regular U.N. budget U.N. member. Japan's contribution to the U.N. regular budget has decreased due to the decline in GDP, but it is still about 11% of the total, or about $277 million, making it second only to the U.S.
It is about half that of the United States, which ranks first, and about three times that of China, which ranks sixth (in F.Y. 2014).
Note that there are five Security Council and permanent members, and their respective contributions are as follows.
It is The United States (22%), the United Kingdom (5.6%), France (5%), Russia (1.7%), and China (3%).
McDougall Report: report on wartime sexual slavery adopted by the Subcommittee on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (now the Human Rights Council) in August 1998.
The rapporteur was Gay MacDougall, and the report was the Final Report on Systematic Rape and Sexual Slavery and Slavery-like Practices in Armed Conflict.
Its primary focus is on the war in the former Yugoslavia and the Rwandan genocide, but as an annex, it also addresses the Japanese comfort women issue.
It follows the Coomaraswamy Report and says that since the comfort stations were products of sexual slavery, "rape camps," and war crimes in gross violation of women's rights, the Japanese government should punish those responsible and compensate the victims.
Japan's United Nations supremacy principle is taken lightly by the United Nations. (Complete)