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List Of Ambassadors Of Japan To The United States
The ambassador of Japan to the United States has existed since 1860, interrupted by disagreements and wars during World War II. Koji Tomita is the current Japanese ambassador to the United States, having presented his credentials on March 28, 2018. Special Charge d'Affaires * Arinori Mori, 1870–1872 * Saburō Takagi, 1872–1873 * Jirō Yano, 1873–1874 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary * Kiyonari Yoshida, 1874–1882 * Munenori Terashima, 1882–1884 * Ryūichi Kuki, 1884–1888 * Viscount Munemitsu Mutsu, 1888–1890 * Gōzō Tateno, 1891–1894 * Shin'ichirō Kurino, 1894–1896 * Tōru Hoshi, 1896–1898 * Jutarō Komura, 1898–1900 * Baron Kogorō Takahira, 1900–1906 (1st time) Ambassador * Viscount Shūzō Aoki, 1906–1908 * Baron Kogorō Takahira, 1908–1909 (2nd time) * Viscount Kōsai Uchida, 1909–1911 * Viscount Sutemi Chinda, 1912–1916 * Aimaro Satō, 1916–1918 * Viscount Kikujirō Ishii, 1918–1919 * Baron Kijūr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takahira Kogorō
Baron was a Japanese diplomat and ambassador to the United States from 1900 to 1909. Biography Takahira was born in what is now Ichinoseki city, Iwate prefecture.Takahira Kogoro. (1920) ''Encyclopedia Americana,'' p. 220./ref> From relatively modest beginnings, Takahira was to become a graduate of ''Kaisei Gakkō'' (the predecessor to Tokyo Imperial University). Career diplomat In 1876, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His first posting to the United States in 1879 was as an attaché; and he was promoted to secretary in 1881. During a return to Asia, he served briefly as ''chargé d'affaires'' in Korea and as Consul General in Shanghai, China. In 1887, he returned to the United States as Consul General in New York City. Postings in Europe as Minister-Resident to Netherlands and Denmark, and as Minister Plenipotentiary at Rome, Vienna and Bern spanned the years before his 1901 return to Washington, D.C. He then continued as Japan's minister in the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attack On Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 8:00a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941. The United States was a neutral country at the time; the attack led to its formal entry into World War II the next day. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, and as Operation Z during its planning. Japan intended the attack as a preventive action. Its aim was to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and those of the United States. Over the course of seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the US-held Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island and on the British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kichisaburō Nomura
was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and was the List of ambassadors of Japan to the United States, ambassador to the United States at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Early life and career Nomura was born in Wakayama, Wakayama, Wakayama city, Wakayama Prefecture. He graduated from the 26th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1898, with a ranking of 2nd out of a class of 57 cadets. As a midshipman, he served on the corvette Japanese corvette Hiei (1877), ''Hiei'' and battleship Japanese battleship Yashima, ''Yashima''. He was promoted to ensign on January 12, 1900, and to sub-lieutenant on October 1, 1901. As a crewman, he made a voyage to the United States on the battleship Japanese battleship Mikasa, ''Mikasa'' from 1901 to 1902. Promoted to lieutenant on September 26, 1903, he served on a large number of ships, including the gunboat ''Maya'', corvette Japanese corvette Kongō (1877), ''Kongō'', and cruiser Japanese cruiser Tokiwa, ''Tokiwa''. He s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kensuke Horinouchi
was a Japanese politician who served as ambassador to the United States and ambassador to Taiwan. Diplomatic career Horinouchi was a member of the Japanese delegation at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, and later noted that "Japan was totally absorbed in its own issues" at said conference. During the 1930s, he served as vice minister of foreign affairs and as a councillor at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. He served as consul general in New York during the early 1930s. In October 1938, Horinouchi was announced as the successor to Hiroshi Saitō as ambassador to the United States. He took office in April 1939. He was recalled from the post in 1940, and was criticised for apparently failing to promote Japanese interests in relation to the trading of aviation gasoline. Despite this, he continued to be engaged in diplomatic relations between the two countries. In 1955, Horinouchi was appointed Japanese ambassador to Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Saito (diplomat)
was the Japanese ambassador to the United States from 1934 till his resignation in October 1938. He died months later in February 1939. As an envoy, Saito took part in Japan's 1934 renunciation of the Washington Naval Treaty. Saito worked to maintain good relations with the U.S, even as further global condemnation for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria was mounting. Among the notable issues that he faced was the USS ''Panay'' incident. Unfortunately, almost no one in the United States remained sympathetic to Japan following these two situations and Saito's career was then considered a failure. He resigned as Ambassador in October, 1938 and died in Washington, D.C. in February, 1939 at age 52 from tuberculosis. Upon his death, still with Ambassador rank, his body was returned to Japan via the heavy cruiser USS ''Astoria'' under the command of Captain Richmond K. Turner. Personal life and Early career Hiroshi Saitō was the son (as described by historian Walter A. McDou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsuji Debuchi
was a Japanese diplomat who served as ambassador to the United States. Diplomatic career Debuchi served as a diplomat in China, where he was head of the Japanese Foreign Office division which dealt with Chinese affairs. He later served as vice minister of foreign affairs for Japan. In 1928, Debuchi was appointed ambassador to the United States, succeeding Tsuneo Matsudaira. He was due to leave his position during 1931, but remained in the position following the Mukden Incident. As an ambassador, he was well liked in the United States. In November 1933, Debuchi left his position as ambassador to the United States, apparently due to his failure to convince them not to oppose Japanese actions in Manchukuo (Manchuria). However, he remained part of the Japanese diplomatic mission afterwards, visiting Australia in 1935 as a goodwill ambassador. Personal life He and his wife Hama Kikuchi had a son Masaru Debuchi and a daughter Takako Debuchi. His son studied at Princeton Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuneo Matsudaira
was a Japanese diplomat of the 20th century. Diplomatic and political career The son of Lord Matsudaira Katamori of Aizu, Tsuneo served as Japanese Ambassador to the United States. In 1929–1935 served as Ambassador to Britain, and in that capacity represented his country at the London Conference on Naval Armaments in 1930. During that conference, he was convinced to accept the ratio in ships which appeared humiliating to the Japanese government through the persuasion efforts of one of the US delegates, Senator David A. Reed, who in return agreed to grant the Japanese government better terms on non-combatant ships. In 1936–1945 served as head of the Imperial Household Agency. His tenure as head of the Imperial Household Agency ended in resignation on June 4, 1945, after he took responsibility for part of the Imperial Palace burning in the American firebombing of Tokyo. During the last year of the war was among the Japanese leaders who acknowledged that the war was lost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masanao Hanihara
was a Japanese diplomat. Biography He was born on August 25, 1876. He came to the United States in 1902 as a member of the Japanese Embassy at Washington, D.C., was consul general at San Francisco in 1916–18, then returned to Japan as director of the Bureau of Commerce of the Japanese Foreign Office. He was a member of the Ishii Mission from which came the Lansing–Ishii Agreement. He was also an influential member of the Washington Disarmament Conference. In December 1922, he was appointed ambassador to the United States, and arrived in Washington in February 1923. His protest, in April 1924, on the passage of the immigration law by the United States government because it would bar the admission of Japanese to the country, was interpreted as "a veiled threat" by the Senate, and had quite an opposite effect from that intended. After the passage of the bill, It was rumored that Hanihara was to be recalled by the Japanese government. Although this was denied, it was so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kijūrō Shidehara
Baron was a pre–World War II Japanese diplomat and politician. He was Prime Minister of Japan from 1945 to 1946 and a leading proponent of pacifism in Japan before and after World War II. He was the last Japanese Prime Minister who was a member of the peerage (''kazoku''). His wife, Masako, was the fourth daughter of Iwasaki Yatarō, founder of the Mitsubishi ''zaibatsu.'' Early life and career Shidehara was born on 13 September 1872, in Kadoma, Osaka, into a wealthy farming family ('' gōnō''). His brother Taira was the first president of Taihoku Imperial University. Shidehara attended Tokyo Imperial University, and graduated from the Faculty of Law, where he had studied under Hozumi Nobushige. After graduation, he found a position within the Foreign Ministry and was sent as a consul to Chemulpo in Korea in 1896. In 1903 Shidehara married Masako Iwasaki, who came from the family that founded the Mitsubishi zaibatsu. This made him the brother-in-law of Katō Takaaki, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishii Kikujirō
Viscount , was a Japanese diplomat and cabinet minister in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan. He served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan between 1915 and 1916. Biography Ishii was born in Mobara city, Kazusa Province (present-day Chiba Prefecture). He graduated from the Law Department of Tokyo Imperial University and joined the Foreign Ministry. His first posting was as an attaché to Paris in 1891, and he was later sent to Chemulpo, Korea in 1896 and to Beijing, China in 1897. During the Boxer Rebellion he served as Japanese diplomatic liaison with the various foreign interventionist armies, spending six months on the front with the Imperial Japanese Army's 5th Infantry Division. Ishii was appointed Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs under the 1st and 2nd Katsura administrations from 1908-1912, and was created a baron (''danshaku'') in the ''kazoku'' (peerage) on 24 August 1911; he had previously been appointed a Grand Cordon of the Ord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimaro Satō
, also known as Yoshimaro Satō and Henry Satoh, was the Japanese Ambassador to the United States from 1916 to 1918. Biography He was born to a samurai family in Hirosaki, Japan 1857. He migrated to the United States and attended DePauw University, graduating in 1881. At DePauw he became a member of Beta Theta Pi. In 1896 he published an English-language work, ''Agitated Japan: The life of Ii Kamon-no-kami Naosuke'', a biography of Ii Naosuke, under the name "Henry Satoh." Upon graduating from DePauw, he returned to Japan and became a telegraph officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He then served in Japan's diplomatic missions to the United States, Great Britain, and France before becoming ambassador to Mexico in 1900. In 1905, Satō participated in the peace conference at Portsmouth, New Hampshire that ended the Russo-Japanese War. The following year, he was appointed Japanese Ambassador to the Netherlands. Satō later served as ambassador to Austria-Hungary during Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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