22 Jul Japan Officially Joins the ICC
22.07.07
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Japan has deposited its instruments of ratification with the UN, making it the 105th member of the International Criminal Court. Japan instantly becomes the Court’s most important financial backer, responsible for 19% of its modest $124 million budget. It will be interesting to see if that status translates into actual power on the Court — Japan has announced that Fumiko Saiga, one of its key human rights envoys, will run in December for one of the Court’s three open judgeships.
I guess this makes it the 13th Asian state to join the ICC (though I think that the ICC is fudging its Asia numbers by including Cyprus as Asian instead of European 😉 ).
Does this mean that every state that has been subject to an international post-conflict tribunal, except Rwanda, is now a member of the ICC (including Germany, Japan, Serbia, Sierra Leone and Cambodia)?
Japan’s New International Face
By Vicheka Lay
For the last five years, we have seen Japan’s great involvement in world affairs; one of the biggest contributors to the United Nations and International Criminal Court, the biggest donnors to Cambodia and its many other humanitarian activities.
These phneonmenon prove to me that Japan is preparing itself to be the activist in world politics, miliary power as it was before world war II.