After cold war new dimensions of Japanes foreign policy

ABSTRACT Japan is one of the most leading countries in the world and a very important actor of a international organizations which influnces the world history and foreign policies.One of the prominent resons of choosing this subject is that under the platform of changing world conjecture after Cold War, Japan contains very powerful dynamics in its structure which impacts regional and global power balances in the world. Recognizing Japan from the perspective of academics, and analyzing its tendencies in region and in the world are supposed to affect power balances now and in the future.In order to understand better the probable position of Japannese Foreign Policy now and in the future, and to make some predictions, first of all Political Structure of Japanese of Foreign Policy and the Organs of Foreign Policy Decision-Making Structure must be known.For better understand the actual and future position of Japan in the world, first of all, we have to learn its political structure and foreign policy decision-making mechanisme. In this thesis, I intented to examine historical background of Japan,physical setting and education structure,foreign policy decision making structure,foreign policy actors and all decision-making ranks from the national leader and his nuclear circle to underlevel ranks. Finally, I examined Japanese foreign and economic relations toward other countries and its foreign policy toward the three major powers in Asia-Pasific Region. (Russia, China and U.SA.) X