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By contrast, the United States accounts for 30 percent of world gross domestic product, but pays only 22 percent. After a decade of economic stagnation, Japanese taxes will barely cover one half of this year's nearly $700 billion budget. Okamoto said from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's office. Last year, for the first time in recent memory, Japan ceded the title of world's largest donor of foreign aid to the United States. At the United Nations, Japanese officials say they are angry that the world body has failed them on two counts. First, they say, United Nations diplomats were happy to have Japan pay one-fifth of the budget but were never moved to take the basic diplomatic step of removing a clause from the United Nations' founding charter that describes Japan as a "former enemy" nearly six decades after the end of World War II. Second, they say, Japan, which has the world's second-largest economy, has been frustrated in its bid to win a permanent seat on the United Nation's Security Council. One United Nations official here who asked not to be identified said that cutting support would not help Japan's Security Council bid, arguing: "If their quest is for the Security Council seat, it is not smart politics. Calling for moving from "money diplomacy" to "real contributions" Mr. Okamoto cited as an example of Japanese contributions the peacekeeping troops sent to East Timor. Stance on North Korea (January 3, 2003) $ 77 Robotics Slumps, but Recovery Is Predicted (October 4, 2002) 78 THREATS AND RESPONSES: REFUGEES;
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