Japanese UN Diplomacy (Historical/Theoretical Analysis)

2006年是日本1956年加入联合国50周年。关于日本的联合国外交，至今为止，包括联合国在内的驻日大使、外交政策局等外交部相关人士和联合国有关人士，就口述历史方法听证会进行了多次采访。到目前为止，国内外研究机构也进行了关于联合国外交的口述历史研究，这些研究都是作为有用的资料收集起来，并在本项目中加以利用。其次，在这些口述历史和访谈的基础上，项目研究者对国际政治、国际法、国际政治史三种方法进行了分析，并在研究研讨会上进行了演讲和辩论。有关主题的学术文章已与日本国际政治协会和其他出版物联合出版。在进行口述历史、访谈和基于各自分析方法的进一步研究中，对日本联合国外交研究的重要主题进行了重新审视。因此，就以下四点的重要问题达成了共识；(1)与21世纪秩序的关系是什么？(2)海湾战争是日本联合国外交史上的转折点吗？(3)联合国安全改革的未来问题(4)为什么在与联合国的经济和社会关系上有一些考虑？在此基础上，主要围绕这些重要问题进行了进一步的研究。

The year 2006 has marked the 50th anniversary since Japan joined the United Nations in 1956. Regarding Japanese UN diplomacy so far, several interviews have been conducted on the hearings of the method of Oral history from ambassador including UN, related people to MOFA including Foreign Policy Bureau and those of UN. It also had been conducted of Oral history regarding UN diplomacy among domestic and overseas research institutes so far, these kinds of previous studies were collected as useful materials and made use of them in this project.Secondly, based upon these Oral history and interviews, the project researcher made an analysis based upon the three approaches of International Politics, International Law, International Political History and made presentations and held debate in the research symposium. The scholarly articles about the relevant theme have been published in books in connection with the Japan Association of International Politics and other publications.During conducting Oral history and interviews and studying further based upon respective analysis methods, it was reexamined on the important themes about the studies of Japanese UN diplomacy. As a result, common understanding has came to about the important issues of those following 4 points ; (1) What is the relationship with 21 century order? (2) Is Gulf War turning point in the history of Japanese UN diplomacy? (3) The future problems of UN Security reform (4) Why there are a few considerations on the economic and social relationships with UN? At this, further studies has been carried mainly focusing on these important issues and problems.