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TOKYO -- Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will use what is being billed here as a landmark speech to tell the U.N. General Assembly that Japan wants to shuck its baggage as a loser of World War II and become a permanent member of the Security Council.
Koizumi has aligned Japan with regional powers Germany, Brazil and India in a campaign to promote themselves to the Council full- time, a change that would dilute the dominance of the five permanent members -- the United States, China, Russia, Britain and France.See the full content of this document
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Japan Seeks Own Seat On U.N. Council
All five have nuclear weapons and represent the alliance that won World War II. But Japan and its allies argue the Security Council must bring in new bl...
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