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Japan at the United Nations

Flag of Japan
Flag of Japan.svg by Various (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1956-12-18
ISO 3166-1
JP / JPN
Admitted by
A/RES/1113 (XI)

International organisations

Every organisation this state belongs to that is compiled here, with the date it joined. Membership is resolved against this site’s own list of member states rather than taken from a query.

OrganisationJoined
United Nations 1956-12-18

Service on principal organs

Elected terms as recorded by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. A year marked pending is one the Library publishes as a partial list because its elections have not yet been held.

Economic and Social Council

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Human Rights Council

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Security Council

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Permanent representatives

2 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Mitsuru Kitano 2014-072019
Yukio Satō 1998-09-042002-08

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, 605 Third Avenue, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10158
National holiday
Birthday of the Emperor, 23 February
Accredited diplomats
53

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1970
CO2 emissions per capita 7.84242 2024
GDP 4.43516e+12 2025
GNI per capita 38,340 2025
Life expectancy at birth 84.0363 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 1.3714 2024
Population 1.23367e+08 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 42,450 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 56 2025

World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0. The sparkline shows the shape of each run from its first reported year; the number beside it carries the magnitude, and there is deliberately no axis on it.

General Debate statements

69 statements to the General Debate since 1957, 229,779 words in all. The longest was 1973, at 6,631 words, delivered by Ohira.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Prime Minister ×20, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×5, Deputy Prime Minister ×3, Permanent Representative ×1. Earlier years are excluded because UN records do not consistently identify a speaker’s post before 1994, and counting those years as though they did would make any state look as though it sent nobody senior.

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Emblems and location

Coat of arms of Japan
Coat of arms. Kamon of the Imperial House of Japan.svg by Fonsecafrancesco04 (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

79 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.

TreatySignedRatified or acceded
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 18 Apr 1963 a
United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property 11 Jan 2007 11 May 2010 A
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 18 Apr 1963 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 26 Mar 1962 8 Jun 1964
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 26 Mar 1962 8 Jun 1964
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 3 Oct 1983 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 3 Oct 1983 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child 21 Sep 1990 22 Apr 1994
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 28 Sep 2007 20 Jan 2014
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 6 Feb 2007 23 Jul 2009
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination - 15 Dec 1995 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 30 May 1978 21 Jun 1979
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 30 May 1978 21 Jun 1979
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 25 Jun 1985
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 29 Jun 1999 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 16 May 1951 A
Protocol concerning the Office international d'hygiène publique - 11 Dec 1951 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 9 Mar 2004 8 Jun 2004 A
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 1 Jan 1982 a
Protocol amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs, concluded at The Hague on 23 January 1912, at Geneva on 11 February 1925 and 19 February 1925, and 13 July 1931, at Bangkok on 27 November 1931 and at Geneva on 26 June 1936 - 27 Mar 1952 A
Protocol Bringing under International Control Drugs Outside the Scope of the Convention of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 11 December 1946 - 5 May 1952 A
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium 23 Jun 1953 21 Jul 1954
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 26 Jul 1961 13 Jul 1964
Convention on psychotropic substances 21 Dec 1971 31 Aug 1990
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 15 Dec 1972 27 Sep 1973
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 19 Dec 1989 12 Jun 1992
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 1 Jul 2008 a
Charter of the Asian and Pacific Development Centre - 9 Sep 1982 s
Agreement Establishing the Bank for Economic Cooperation and Development in the Middle East and North Africa 30 May 1997 30 May 1997 A
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank 4 Dec 1965 16 Aug 1966
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 11 Feb 1977 25 Oct 1977 A
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 18 Jan 1980 3 Jun 1980 A
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 14 May 1971 a
Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring 2 Dec 1954 7 Sep 1955
Additional Protocol to the Convention concerning Customs Facilities for Touring, relating to the Importation of Tourist Publicity Documents and Material 2 Dec 1954 7 Sep 1955
Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles 2 Dec 1954 8 Jun 1964
Customs Convention on Containers - 14 May 1971 a
Agreement concerning the adoption of harmonized technical United Nations Regulations for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these United Nations Regulations - 25 Sep 1998 a
Agreement concerning the Establishing of Global Technical Regulations for Wheeled Vehicles, Equipment and Parts which can be fitted and/or be used on Wheeled Vehicles - 3 Aug 1999 A
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network - 26 Apr 2004 s
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 17 Mar 1958 A
Protocol amending the International Convention relating to Economic Statistics, signed at Geneva on 14 December 1928 - 2 Dec 1952 A
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials - 17 Jun 1970 A
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 26 Jul 1989 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms 21 Apr 1972 19 Jun 1978 A
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 [29 Dec 1992 ] [29 Dec 1992 A] (withdrawn)
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 16 Feb 2007 31 Aug 2007 A
Food Assistance Convention 24 Jul 2012 24 Jul 2012 A
Convention on the Political Rights of Women 1 Apr 1955 13 Jul 1955
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court - 17 Jul 2007 a
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 30 Oct 2001 11 Jun 2002 A
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 12 Dec 2000 11 Jul 2017 A
United Nations Convention against Corruption 9 Dec 2003 11 Jul 2017 A
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages 22 Dec 1980 8 Jun 1987
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 8 Jun 1987 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel 6 Jun 1995 6 Jun 1995 A
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings 17 Apr 1998 16 Nov 2001 A
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone - 10 Jun 1968 a
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction - 12 Dec 2025 a
Convention on the High Seas - 10 Jun 1968 a
Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks 19 Nov 1996 7 Aug 2006
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 20 Jun 1961 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation - 1 Oct 2023 a
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations 24 Apr 1987 -
Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity 22 Mar 1977 25 Nov 1977 A
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques - 9 Jun 1982 a
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (with Protocols I, II and III) 22 Sep 1981 9 Jun 1982 A
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 13 Jan 1993 15 Sep 1995
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 8 Jul 1997
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 3 Dec 1997 30 Sep 1998 A
Convention on Cluster Munitions 3 Dec 2008 14 Jul 2009 A
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 9 May 2014 A
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 14 Oct 1994 11 Sep 1998 A
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 31 Aug 1999 15 Jun 2004 A
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 30 Aug 2002 a
Minamata Convention on Mercury 10 Oct 2013 2 Feb 2016 A
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 30 Sep 1988 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 17 Sep 1993 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 13 Jun 1992 28 May 1993 A

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - abstain
A/RES/80/296 - yes
A/RES/80/293 B - yes
A/RES/80/294 - yes
A/RES/80/293 A - yes
A/RES/80/297 - yes
A/RES/80/299 - yes

Provenance

Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2JP wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903370+00:00
iso3JPN wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903379+00:00
m49392 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.135716+00:00
nameJapan wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903351+00:00
un_admission_date1956-12-18 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.903360+00:00
unsd_nameJapan un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.135727+00:00

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