TOKYO: Japan will give up its bid to secure a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the time being after it failed to win enough international support, a daily said on Sunday. Japan, the second largest UN donor after the United States, has been jointly lobbying for permanent council membership with Brazil, Germany and India as part of the so-called Group of Four or G4. The G4 proposal calls for increasing council membership from 15 to 25, with six new permanent seats without veto power - one each for Brazil, Germany, India and Japan and two for the African region, and four non-permanent seats.While Japan will give up its bid for now, the government still sees a permanent UN seat as a major diplomatic goal and plans to expand its UN work through foreign aid and peacekeeping operations, the paper said.