According to the Japanese news agency, the Japanese news agency on September 17, several Japanese government officials revealed that day that the Japanese government has basically decided not to recognize the Palestinian state.
According to reports, the Japanese government will be during the UN General Assembly whether or not to recognize the Palestinian State's expressed Japanese position.The Japanese Prime Minister Shizoku, who is visiting the United States to attend the UN General Assembly, will not attend the high-level international conference on the peaceful settlement of the Palestinian issue and the implementation of the "two-state plan" to be held on September 22.
Japanese government sources have revealed that whether to recognize the Palestinian state is a difficult question, and that although it is not possible to ignore the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, recognition of the Palestinian state will inevitably generate Israeli dissatisfaction and will inevitably cause friction with the United States that is backing up for Israel.
In addition, diplomatic sources said on Monday that the United States had urged Japan not to recognize the Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly later this month, according to sources that the United States had expressed its opposition to recognizing the Palestinian state through several diplomatic channels and urged Japan to remain consistent with the United States.
Since late July, several Western countries, including France, Britain, Canada and Australia, have announced that they will recognize the State of Palestine during the 80th session of the UN General Assembly in September or on the eve of the meeting. UN Secretary-General Guterres has warned that the “two-state plan” is now more distant than ever, calling on the international community to take urgent, concrete and irreversible steps to the “two-state plan”.