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# Multilingual Charter of the United Nations
## Sources
### English: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text
### Japanese: https://www.unic.or.jp/info/un/charter/text_japanese/
## Preample
### English:
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and
to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
### Japanese:
われら連合国の人民は、
われらの一生のうちに二度まで言語に絶する悲哀を人類に与えた戦争の惨害から将来の世代を救い、
基本的人権と人間の尊厳及び価値と男女及び大小各国の同権とに関する信念をあらためて確認し、
正義と条約その他の国際法の源泉から生ずる義務の尊重とを維持することができる条件を確立し、
一層大きな自由の中で社会的進歩と生活水準の向上とを促進すること
### English:
AND FOR THESE ENDS
to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and
to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and
to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,
### Japanese:
並びに、このために、
寛容を実行し、且つ、善良な隣人として互に平和に生活し、
国際の平和及び安全を維持するためにわれらの力を合わせ、
共同の利益の場合を除く外は武力を用いないことを原則の受諾と方法の設定によって確保し、
すべての人民の経済的及び社会的発達を促進するために国際機構を用いることを決意して、
### English:
HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS.
Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.
### Japanese:
これらの目的を達成するために、われらの努力を結集することに決定した。
よって、われらの各自の政府は、サン・フランシスコ市に会合し、全権委任状を示してそれが良好妥当であると認められた代表者を通じて、この国際連合憲章に同意したので、ここに国際連合という国際機構を設ける
## Chapter I: Purposes and Principles
### English:
Article 1
The Purposes of the United Nations are:
To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;
To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and
To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.
### Japanese:
第1条
国際連合の目的は、次のとおりである。
国際の平和及び安全を維持すること。そのために、平和に対する脅威の防止及び除去と侵略行為その他の平和の破壊の鎮圧とのため有効な集団的措置をとること並びに平和を破壊するに至る虞のある国際的の紛争又は事態の調整又は解決を平和的手段によって且つ正義及び国際法の原則に従って実現すること。
人民の同権及び自決の原則の尊重に基礎をおく諸国間の友好関係を発展させること並びに世界平和を強化するために他の適当な措置をとること。
経済的、社会的、文化的又は人道的性質を有する国際問題を解決することについて、並びに人種、性、言語又は宗教による差別なくすべての者のために人権及び基本的自由を尊重するように助長奨励することについて、国際協力を達成すること。
これらの共通の目的の達成に当って諸国の行動を調和するための中心となること。
### English:
Article 2
The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles.
The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members.
All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter.
All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.
All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.
All Members shall give the United Nations every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any state against which the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action.
The Organization shall ensure that states which are not Members of the United Nations act in accordance with these Principles so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of international peace and security.
Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter Vll.
### Japanese: