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2013 ALBERT CAMPBELL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE
MODEL UNITED NATIONS
PRESENTS…
NARUTO Committee
Lead Chair: Benjamin Kuang
Chair: Amy U
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Dear Delegates,
Welcome to the October 2013 Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute Model United
Nations (ACCIMUN) conference.
My name is Benjamin Kuang, lead chair for this committee, and it is a great
pleasure to have all of you attending our Model United Nations conference. I am a
senior student at Albert Campbell and love most of the subjects provided at our
school, but most notably automotive mechanics and technology. I enjoy academic
studies as well, specifically history. My list of hobbies is wide and varying such as
woodwork, art, and videogames. Pop culture is also an interest of mine including
many series of comics, cartoons, manga, anime and other shows. I look forward to
watching and hearing the intense debates we will have, and hopefully you are as
eager as I am.
Amy U is one of my co-chairs on this committee. Amy is currently a grade
11 student at Albert Campbell, and she is excited to share her love for Model UN
and Naruto with you.
The World of Naruto includes issues such as espionage, ninjas, international
criminals, human rights violators and war. Problems in the Naruto world can be
applied to reality as well. The three topics covered in this background guide and
committee will be the terrorist cell Akatsuki, the use of Kinjutsu, or forbidden
techniques and the international criminal Uchiha Sasuke.
We would once again like to welcome you to our conference. The Dais
hopes you enjoy the topics presented to you in this background guide and wish you
the best of luck in the forthcoming debate.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Kuang, Lead Chair
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Welcome to the Naruto – Five Kage Summit committee. Naruto is an ongoing Japanese
manga and anime and arguably one of the most popular in the past decade. The series focuses on
a world where the continents are split among various lands most specifically the lands of fire,
earth, wind, water, and lightning. Each land has a central government controlled by a Daimyo (a
king of sorts) however they each also have villages made to breed and train shinobi (ninjas).
These villages each have their own respective leaders separate from the Daimyo (kages). The
ninja villages (Konohagakure, Iwagakure, Sunagakure, Kirigakure, and Kumogakure
respectively) are meant to take requests from the people of the land and complete a specific task,
be it gathering items to assassinations.
Naruto’s plot focuses on the titular character Naruto and his adventures as a shinobi of
Konohagakure. In his adventures it is shown that there are tensions between the shinobi villages.
In times before there were three great shinobi wars (reminiscent of the World Wars of our
reality) where the entire shinobi world was in conflict. Due to the previous conflicts tensions are
still high even after so many years. Even though there have been large scale conflicts between
the villages long ago, some villages have a peace agreement, specifically Konhagakure and
Sunagakure. Many of the village’s elders however still refuse to cooperate with the other villages
even though there is a new threat arising likely to destroy all the villages. There are many other
rising issues such as the introduction of Akatsuki a powerful terrorist cell and their goal of
amassing powers capable of destroying whole villages. World class renegade shinobi such as
Uchiha Sasuke from Konhagakure are also a threat as well as the appearance of new shinobi
villages. Luckily in Naruto there is a specific time where the five leaders (Kages) me and
deleiberated on what to do about these situations. In this committee you will need to read and
learn of your specified position in the world of Naruto and figure out a way to resolve all these
sorts of issues in the way you want along with your fellow shinobi.
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Topic 1- Akatsuki
Intro-
The Akatsuki is a terrorist organization in the world of Naruto. Akatsuki is composed of s-ranked
shinobi criminals/missing-nin (ninja who abandon their village). The meeting of the five kage
will discuss what is to done about this organization.
Akatsuki’s main objective is to detain and capture the jinchuruki, the living hosts of the bijuu (or
tailed beasts). It is known that the group is capturing the jinchuruki to extract the bijuu from their
hosts, killing them. The bijuu are essentially monsters made of large amounts of chakra making
them extremely dangerous (they can be thought of as the nuclear weapon of this world as they
have the power to obliterate villages and have tremendous power). So far Akatsuki has captured
seven out of nine tailed beasts making them extremely dangerous. They are known to be
extremely hostile, destroying the village of konoha in a recent attack. It is also speculated that
Akatsuki has a standing army of clones of Zetsu an Akatsuki member, and the two remaining
members of Akatsuki are Kisame Hoshigaki and Tobi. An additional partner of Akatsuki is
Uchiha Sasuke a missing-nin from Konohagakure.
Naruto the titular lead of the series is the only remaining jinchuruki not captured by
Akatsuki, the question remains: how can we protect ourselves from the world’s largest collection
of weapons of mass destruction?
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Weapons of mass destruction-
The possession of a bijuu is like the equivalent of having a nuclear weapon, primed and ready in
our reality and thus it can be thought of in the same way. The possession of all, but two bijuus by
Akatsuki is thus extremely dangerous. Think of the possession of the bijuu as the hypothetical
notion that Al-Qaeda possessed more nuclear arms than the USA or Russia. What could be done
to possibly deter the terrorist cell from using their arms? Or else the likelihood that all life will be
exterminated since Akatsuki has no boundaries nor are they affiliated with a specific village or
land.
Political-
Now there are only two villages out of the main five that are capable of a “nuclear attack” with a
bijuu. Bijuus are practically a bargaining tool in the Politics of Naruto as well as deterrents. Now
that only two of the main villages have a bijuu that gives them a large upper hand. If the akatsuki
weren’t to attack what stops the other two villages of Konohagakure and Kurogakure when the
other villages are powerless?
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Criminal treatment-
The members of Akatsuki are all from various villages and lands, international criminals. While
some villages choose to kill on sight there are other countries will want to try them for their
crimes.
Focus Questions-
1. Should the criminals be killed or be tried first?
2. If they are to be tried by what authority, since there is none?
3. What regulations can be put in place to stop abuse of jinchurukis and bijuus by those
possessing them?
4. Since Akatsuki has no base of operations and always moves around the land how would
you find them before them strike?
5. Should the remaining two jinchuruki be allowed to do as they wish, even if akatsuki are
after them?
6. What can be done to prevent future groups of terrorist shinobi cells?
7. Is the protection of many thorugh the creation of a jinchuruki worth the sacrifice of the
host having a normal life?
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Forbidden jutsu
In the world of Naruto an issue that is mentioned a lot is that of forbidden jutsus. A jutsu
is a literally a skill or technique, usually mystical in nature, which a shinobi uses in battle. Some
examples of jutsu are the shadow clone jutsu, and fireball jutsu. There are three basic categories
of jutsu; ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu (ninja techniques, illusionary techniques and body
techniques respectively). However there are sub-categories as well such as senjutsu which is sage
techniques which utilize the natural energies around the user instead of inner energies, called
chakra.
There is however a certain sub-category of jutsu that is largely dangerous called kinjutsu,
meaning forbidden techniques. Jutsu are deemed as forbidden if it meets one of three
requirements, the requirements are: 1-they cause possibly fatal injuries to the user, 2-they violate
laws of nature (such as reanimating the dead), and 3-they can cause massive collateral damage.
Some examples of kinjutsu are the Summoning: impure world resurrection technique, the fury
technique, and the eight gates technique.
Some kinjutsu actually violate human rights as defined in our world. Two really well
known examples of these sorts of techniques are the aforementioned impure world resurrection
technique and the living corpse reincarnation technique. The first technique the user sacrifices a
living person to reanimate a dead person with their original mind intact but under control of the
user. The second technique allows the user to forcibly take control of a victim’s body and use it
as their own permanently. Another kinjutsu are curse seals which allow for great power but
damage the person being forcibly imposed on people to experiment on curse seals.
The kinjutsu that causes massive damage is forbidden because they can potentially cause
enough damage to wipe out a village, comparable to a nuclear bomb.
Though these jutsu are called forbidden they actually have no legal ramifications for
using them other than being called banned and frowned upon. These jutsu are potentially the
most dangerous techniques known to the entire world yet they have no consequences for their
use.
The two reanimated corpses of the first and
second leader of konohagakure.
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The damage the fury technique can cause
Focus Questions
1. Should these techniques be restricted or should they be free knowledge for the places of
education?
2. Should users of this technique be convicted of a crime?
3. Should these techniques be made illegal and have consequences?
4. How can the use of these techniques be monitored?
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Topic 3- Uchiha Sasuke
Uchiha Sasuke is without a doubt, one of the strongest shinobis in the Uchiha Clan and in
Konohagakure, the hidden village of the Land of Fire. Uchiha Sasuke has previously left Konoha
to pursue his vengeance against his own brother, Uchiha Itachi. Sasuke had sought Orochimaru
for more power in order to defeat his brother and Akatsuki to avenge his parents and the entire
Uchiha Clan. Eventually, being under Orochimaru, Sasuke bore more hatred towards everyone
who was in his way of seeking revenge. He fought many of his previous teammates especially
with Naruto who was with him in Team 7 under the guidance of Kakashi. After discovering what
great power he possesses, he quickly eliminates Orochimaru. Sasuke then formed his own
organization Taka, by recruiting three former subordinates (Karin, Jugo and Hozuki) who were
all under the experiments of Orochimaru.
Taka's original goal was to find Itachi and prevent anything that will interrupt the fight
between him and Sasuke. The plan changed drastically after discovering the truth behind Uchiha
Itachi and the assassination of the Uchiha Clan. Itachi was ordered to kill off all the people in the
Uchiha Clan by the Konoha Elders; however Itachi spared his own brother because he truly
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loved Sasuke. Sasuke knowing now that Itachi had done so much for him, he swears to kill the
Konoha Elders to avenge his brother. He and his organization, now changed from Taka to Hebi
had joined alliance with the Akatsuki, the previous organization that Itachi was in.
With the help of the leader of Akatsuki, Uchiha Madara, they have successfully taken all
seven power of the Jinchuriki (humans who have tailed beasts sealed inside of them, allowing
them to have tremendous chakra power). They have attempted to kidnap the eight-tailed beast
but failed, they now need to capture the eighth (Killer-bee) and the ninth (Naruto) to create a
legendary jutsu that will bring “peace and doom” to the new world which will need a great
amount of chakra. Sasuke is still believed to have a good side despite his deep hatred for
revenge. The Konoha Elders treat Sasuke as a rebellious shinobi. He is considered an enemy for
what he did that harmed a lot of people during the process. However, friends who were always
supportive and had stood by Sasuke went against the punishments that were set out for Sasuke.
Instead, they wanted to help him, bring him back to Konoha. Especially since Naruto had
promised Sakura to bring Sasuke back.
Due to Sasuke’s actions against other villageshe has made konohagakure a target for
many. His actions also might have an effect on Konohagakure’s economy as well because since
they produced a criminal the people of the land will be wary and won’t request missions form
them.
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Focus Questions-
1. Should Sasuke be given leniency for his crimes or killed for being a missing-nin and
renegade?
2. Even if Konohagakure gives him leniency should sasuke be tried for his crimes against
other villages?
3. What should be done to capture Sasuke, yet not taking his life?
4. Should Sasuke be put with the other Akatsuki members as a terrorist?
5. Should his crimes be forgiven because of the fact of which his situation came to be?
6. Is keeping Sasuke alive worth damaging konhagakure’s reputation and worth?
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Further Readings
http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Narutopedia
Please visit this site and search your position in the search bar, as well as other points of interest
as well.
Some suggested readings would be:
Akatsuki
Naruto
Sasuke
Joint Shinobi alliance
Five kage summit
Kinjutsu
Sources
http://shonenjump.wikia.com/wiki/File:Naruto_logo_jp.png
http://forums.watchuseek.com/attachments/f17/707982d1336959404-g-shock-perfect-ninja-
watch-map-naruto-world.jpg
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130424090445/naruto/images/8/85/Tenpenchii.png
http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Narutopedia