The list of ambassadors of France to Japan began developing in the same year that the American Commodore Perry "opened" Japan's doors to the West. Franco-Japanese diplomatic relations were initially established during the Second Empire of French history and the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

of Japanese history.

List of heads of mission

Ambassadors of the Second Empire

Ambassadors of the Third Republic

Ambassadors of the Fourth Republic

Ambassadors of the Fifth Republic

Notes

References

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* Halleck, Henry Wager. (1861)
''International law: or, Rules regulating the intercourse of states in peace and war''
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* Medzini, Meron. (1971). ''French policy in Japan during the closing years of the Tokugawa regime.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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