Revision of Minor Assignment 4: Working title, thesis & outline

Japan's foreign policy: weakening the US-Japan Alliance and revitalizing the United Nations

Thesis: Japan should weaken the US-Japan Security Alliance and realign with the United Naions in order to establish its international pacifist and impartial stance.

Outline
I. Introduction
A. Background information
B. Thesis Statement

II. The current situation of the Alliance
A. purpose of the treaty
B. US pleage to protect Japan
C. Japan's support for the US bases
1. land for bases
2. Omoiyari Yosan

III. The problems with the Security Alliance
A. suspicion raised in the East-Asia Pacific region
B. Japan's dilemma between the Article 9 and the US nuclear umbrella
C. little attention to World peace and excessive weight on national interests

IV. The United Nations as new foreign policy trajectory
A. concept of the UN
1. World peace
2. collective security
B. Japan's contribution to the UN
1. becoming a memger of the Security Coucil
2. participation in PKO activities
3. economical support
4. antinuclear movement

V. Conclusion