General Debate speaker

Shiina

Addressed the General Debate 3 times for Japan, between 1964 and 1966 — 14,736 words in all. The longest was 1966, at 5,366.

Also recorded as “SHIINA” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 3 statements are grouped by that name and the name of the state. Where a state sent two people who shared a surname, this page would combine them, and nothing in the record would show it.

05,00010,0001964: 4,559 words1965: 4,811 words1966: 5,366 words19641966
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1964 19 not recorded 4,559
1965 20 not recorded 4,811
1966 21 not recorded 5,366

United Nations records do not consistently identify a speaker’s office before 1994, so a blank means the record does not say.

What the statements mention most

disarmament 26 peacekeeping 26 nuclear weapons 22 outer space 6 non proliferation 5 human rights 3 apartheid 2 non aligned 1

Counts of words from a published list across these 3 statements. A count is a fact about a word: it is not a measure of what this person believed, argued for, or cared about, and nothing on this page should be read that way.

Everything here is drawn from what Shiina said in an official capacity at the rostrum of the General Assembly, as published by the United Nations. Nothing else about them is collected or inferred.

Where this page comes from