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The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Japan is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Japan, and is the head of the UK's diplomatic mission there. The following is a chronological list of
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heads of mission (
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) in Japan from 1859. Before 1905, there were no ambassadors exchanged between the two countries, the highest rank being
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a rank just below ambassador. Before 1859, there was no treaty and no diplomatic relations, because Japan was isolated from the world by the
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's policy of national isolation called '' sakoku'' (literally ''locked country'').


List of heads of mission


Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary


Ambassadors

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Political Representative

* Sir Alvary Gascoigne (1946–1951) Hoare, James. (1999). * Sir Esler Dening (1951–1952)Nish, pp. 173-178.


Ambassadors


See also

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British Embassy, Tokyo The British Embassy, Tokyo (駐日英国大使館 ''Chūnichi Eikoku Taishikan'') is the chief diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in Japan, with the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Japan being the chief of mission. The embassy compound m ...
*
Embassy of Japan, London The Embassy of Japan in London is the diplomatic mission of Japan in the United Kingdom. The embassy occupies a large Victorian building on Piccadilly opposite Green Park, which is Grade II listed. It was once the former Junior Constitutiona ...
*
Japan–United Kingdom relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between Japan and the United Kingdom. History The history of the relationship between Japan and England began in 1600 with the arrival of William Adams (Adams the Pilot, ''Miura Anjin''), (the firs ...
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Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty The was the first treaty between Great Britain and the Empire of Japan, then under the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate. Signed on October 14, 1854, it paralleled the Convention of Kanagawa, a similar agreement between Japan and the United ...
** Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce ** Anglo-Japanese Alliance **
Treaty of San Francisco The , also called the , re-established peaceful relations between Japan and the Allied Powers on behalf of the United Nations by ending the legal state of war and providing for redress for hostile actions up to and including World War II. It w ...
* Foreign and Commonwealth Office *
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References

* Hoare, James. (1999). ''Embassies in the East: the Story of the British Embassies in Japan, China, and Korea from 1859 to the Present.'' Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
OCLC 42645589
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Ian Nish Ian Hill Nish CBE (3 June 1926 – 31 July 2022) was a British academic. A specialist in Japanese studies, he was Emeritus Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His scholarship relatin ...
. (2004). ''British Envoys in Japan 1859-1972.'' Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental.
OCLC 249167170
* Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). ''Japan Encyclopedia.'' Cambridge:
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.
OCLC 48943301


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