JAPANESE FOREIGN POLICY AT THE END OF THE XX-TH CENTURY

The article shows the gap between the economic success of post-war Japan, associated with the organic combination of traditional elements of management and Western innovations, on the one hand, and its "secondary" role in world politics, due to its dependence on the United States, on the other. Special attention is paid to Japan's foreign policy, in particular, the steps towards changing the Constitution, the desire for membership in the UN Security Council, all these facts indicate Japan's desire to change its political image, to abandon unilateral Americanization, which has gone too far. However, a new acquisition of geopolitical independence of this country in the current global balance of power seems unlikely.