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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 ...
to the
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has existed since 1860, interrupted by disagreements and wars during
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Koji Tomita is a Japanese diplomat who currently serves as Japanese ambassador to the United States. Career Tomita was born in Fukuoka in 1957 and grew up in Hyogo prefecture. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduating from the Faculty o ...
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 is a stand-alone Japanese given name along with " Tarō", and a common name suffix for males. Possible writings Jirō can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: * 次郎, "next, son" * 次朗, "next, melodious" * 二郎, "s ...
, 1873–1874


Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

* Kiyonari Yoshida, 1874–1882 *
Munenori Terashima Count was a Japanese politician and diplomat during the Meiji period. He served as the 3rd Chairman of the Chamber of Elders and Japan's 4th Foreign Minister. Early life Terashima was born to a ''samurai'' family in Satsuma Domain (in wha ...
, 1882–1884 * Ryūichi Kuki, 1884–1888 *
Viscount A viscount ( , for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial ...
Munemitsu Mutsu, 1888–1890 * Gōzō Tateno, 1891–1894 * Shin'ichirō Kurino, 1894–1896 * Tōru Hoshi, 1896–1898 * Jutarō Komura, 1898–1900 *
Baron Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knig ...
Kogorō Takahira, 1900–1906 (1st time)


Ambassador

*
Viscount A viscount ( , for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial ...
Shūzō Aoki, 1906–1908 * Baron Kogorō Takahira, 1908–1909 (2nd time) *
Viscount A viscount ( , for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial ...
Kōsai Uchida, 1909–1911 *
Viscount A viscount ( , for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial ...
Sutemi Chinda, 1912–1916 *
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 Univers ...
, 1916–1918 *
Viscount A viscount ( , for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial ...
Kikujirō Ishii, 1918–1919 *
Baron Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knig ...
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 m ...
, 1919–1922 *
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 direc ...
, 1922–1924 *
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 ...
, 1924–1928 *
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 ...
, 1928–1934 * Hiroshi Saitō, 1934–1939 *
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 ...
, 1939–1940 *
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, ...
, 1941–1944 (Ambassador during the
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, j ...
) *
Saburō Kurusu was a Japanese career diplomat. He is remembered now as an envoy who tried to negotiate peace and understanding with the United States while the Japanese government under Emperor Shōwa was secretly preparing the attack on Pearl Harbor. As Imp ...
, 1941–1945 (Special envoy to negotiate peace with U.S. officials) * ''No representation during Allied occupation of Japan'' (1945–1952) * Eikichi Araki, 1952–1953 *
Sadao Iguchi was a Japanese diplomat who served as List of ambassadors of Japan to Canada, ambassador to Canada and List of ambassadors of Japan to the United States, ambassador to the United States. Education Iguchi attended Hitotsubashi University, before ...
, 1954–1956 *
Masayuki Tani (2 September 1889 – 16 October 1962) was a Japanese diplomat and politician who was briefly foreign minister of Japan from September 1942 to 21 April 1943 during World War II. Career Tani was a career diplomat before assuming minis ...
, 1956–1957 *
Kōichirō Asakai Kōichirō Asakai ( ja, 朝海浩一郎; 1906–1995) was a Japanese politician who served as ambassador to the United States and ambassador to the Philippines Asakai studied banking and graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1929, before jo ...
, 1957–1963 *
Ryūji Takeuchi Ryūji (also spelled Ryuji or Ryuuji) is a common masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Ryūji can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *竜二, "dragon, 2" *竜次, "dragon, next" *竜司, "dragon, rule" *竜児, " ...
, 1963–1967 *
Takeso Shimoda was a Japanese diplomat who served as ambassador to the United States and a justice in the Supreme Court of Japan. Career Shimoda served as vice foreign minister (a bureaucratic appointment) within the Japanese Foreign Ministry. He was involve ...
, 1967–1970 *
Nobuhiko Ushiba was a Japanese diplomat who served as Ambassador to Canada from 1961 to 1964, Ambassador to the United States from 1970 to 1973, and as Minister of State for External Economic Affairs from 1977 to 1979. The last was a position in the Cabinet o ...
, 1970–1973 * Takeshi Yasukawa, 1973–1976 * Fumihiko Tōgō, 1976–1980 * Yoshio Ōkawara, 1980–1985 * Nobuo Matsunaga, 1985–1989 * Ryōhei Murata, 1989–1992 * Takakazu Kuriyama, 1992–1995 *
Kunihiko Saitō Kunihiko Saitō ( ja, 斎藤 邦彦; 2 February 1935 – 4 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as ambassador to the United States. He was ambassador to the United States from 1995 until 1999. He served as head of the Japan Internatio ...
, 1995–1999 *
Shunji Yanai Shunji Yanai ( ja, 柳井 俊二) (born 15 January, 1937 in Tokio) is a Japanese politician who served as ambassador to the United States from 1999 until 2001. Yanai entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1961, and studied at the University o ...
, 1999–2001 *
Ryōzō Katō is a Japanese lawyer and career diplomat who served as the Japanese Ambassador to the United States from 2001 to 2008. He also served as the Commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball. Career Kato worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
, 2001–2008 *
Ichirō Fujisaki was Japanese Ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2012. He was previously the Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations and to the World Trade Organization. Fujisaki attended junior high school in Seattle, Washington as an exchange stu ...
, 2008–2012Sweet, Lynn. "Japan Amb. Fujisaki Hits Chicago: Speech, Gov. Quinn Meeting, Desiree Rogers Dinner." ''Chicago Sun-Times.'' June 13, 2010
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Staihar, Janet. "Japanese Ambassador to Retire." ''Georgetown Dish.'' September 20, 2012
accessed 2013-06-18. * Ken'ichirō Sasae, 2012–2018 * Shinsuke J. Sugiyama, 2018-2021 *
Koji Tomita is a Japanese diplomat who currently serves as Japanese ambassador to the United States. Career Tomita was born in Fukuoka in 1957 and grew up in Hyogo prefecture. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduating from the Faculty o ...
, 2021-present


See also

* Japanese Embassy to the United States (up until 1860) *
Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of Japan to the United States. It is located at 2520 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., in the Embassy Row neighborhood. In addition to serving as Japan's diplomatic mission in the United States, the embassy pro ...
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United States Ambassador to Japan The is the ambassador from the United States of America to Japan. History Since the opening of Japan by Commodore Matthew C. Perry, in 1854, the U.S. has maintained diplomatic relations with Japan, except for the ten-year period between the at ...
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Japan–United States relations International relations between Japan and the United States began in the late 18th and early 19th century with the diplomatic but force-backed missions of U.S. ship captains James Glynn and Matthew C. Perry to the Tokugawa shogunate. Following ...
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Convention of Kanagawa The Convention of Kanagawa, also known as the Kanagawa Treaty (, ''Kanagawa Jōyaku'') or the Japan–US Treaty of Peace and Amity (, ''Nichibei Washin Jōyaku''), was a treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa Shogunate on March ...
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Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States–Japan) The , also called the Harris Treaty was a treaty signed between the United States and Tokugawa Shogunate, which opened the ports of Kanagawa and four other Japanese cities to trade and granted extraterritoriality to foreigners, among a number ...
** Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan **
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 ...
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Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan The , more commonly known as the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in English and as the or just in Japanese, is a treaty that permits the presence of U.S. military bases on Japanese soil, and commits the two nations to defend each other if one or th ...
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United States Forces Japan is a subordinate unified command of the United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM). It was activated at Fuchū Air Station in Tokyo, Japan, on 1 July 1957 to replace the Far East Command. USFJ is commanded by the Commander, US Forces ...
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U.S.–Japan Status of Forces Agreement U.S.–Japan Status of Forces Agreement (formally, the "Agreement under Article VI of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the United States of America, Regarding Facilities and Areas and the Status of United States Ar ...
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Foreign relations of Japan The are handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Japan maintains diplomatic relations with every United Nations member state except for North Korea, in addition to UN observer states Holy See, as well as Kosovo, Cook Island ...
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Embassy of the United States in Tokyo The Embassy of the United States in Tokyo (駐日アメリカ合衆国大使館 ''Chū Ni~Tsu Amerikagasshūkoku taishikan'') represents the United States in Tokyo, Japan. Along with consulates in Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, and Naha, the E ...


References

{{reflist 1860 establishments in Japan
United States of America The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territo ...
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 ...