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Hungarian-Japanese relations ( hu, Magyar–japán kapcsolatok, ja, 日本とハンガリーの関係) are foreign relations between
Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
and
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. After
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, both countries re-established diplomatic relations in August 1959. Hungary has an embassy in
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and 2 honorary consulates (in
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). Japan has an embassy in
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. Both countries are full members of the
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.


High-level mutual visits


Head of States

* April 2000 - President of Hungary Árpád Göncz's official visit * July 2002 - Emperor of Japan
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official visit * December 2009 - President of Hungary
László Sólyom László Sólyom ( hu, Sólyom László, ; born 3 January 1942) is a Hungarian political figure, lawyer, and librarian who was President of Hungary from 2005 until 2010. Previously he was Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Hungary f ...
's working visit.


External links


Hungarian embassy in Tokyo


* ttp://www.hu.emb-japan.go.jp/ Japanese embassy in Budapest

Gergely Toth: The History of Relations between Meiji Japan and Hungary under the Double Monarchy 1869–1913. (In Hungarian, with Summary in English and a short Abstract in Japanese)


See also

* Foreign relations of Hungary * Foreign relations of Japan * Turanism *
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