The

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

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ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

is the official representative of the Government in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

to the Government of

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 ...

. Till August 16, 1971 the Iranian Ambassador to Japan was accredited in Taipei.

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Wakatsuki Reijirō Baron was a Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan. Early life Wakatsuki Reijirō was born on 21 March 1866, in Matsue, Izumo Province (present day Shimane Prefecture), the second son of samurai foot soldier (''ashigaru'') Okumura Se ...

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Saitō Makoto Viscount was a Japanese naval officer and politician. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Saitō Makoto"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 809. Upon distinguishing himself during his command of two cruisers in the First Sino-Japanese War, Saitō rose ...

, , 1312 , - , , 1312 , Bagher Azimi ( fa) , fa, باقر عظیمی , , Reza Shah Pahlavi ,

Okada Keisuke was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, politician and Prime Minister of Japan from 1934 to 1936. Biography Early life Okada was born on 20 January 1868, in Fukui Prefecture, the son of a samurai of the Fukui Domain. He attended the 15th ...

, , 1316 , - , , 1316 , Ali-Mohammad Saybani , fa, علی‌محمد شیبانی , , Reza Shah Pahlavi , Hayashi Senjūrō , , 1317 , - , , 1317 , Mahmoud Bahadori , fa, محمود بهادری , '' From 1316 to 1319, Iran did not have a minister in Japan. On December 25, 1318, the National Salvation Council approved a friendly treaty between the governments of Iran and Japan. Japan was Hitler's German ally. '' , Reza Shah Pahlavi ,

Hiranuma Kiichirō was a prominent right-wing Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan in 1939. He was convicted of war crimes committed during World War II and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Early life Hiranuma was born in what is now Tsuyama Ci ...

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Abolqasem Najm Abolghassem Nadjm (Najm ol-Molk) ( fa, ابولقاسم نجم), ''Abolqāsem Najm''/''Abolqassem Najm'' (11 May 1892 – October 19, 1983) was an Iranian politician, cabinet minister, and diplomat. Early life and education His father was Mir ...

, fa, ابوالقاسم نجم , 25 August to 17 September 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran , Reza Shah Pahlavi ,

Yonai Mitsumasa was a Japanese general and politician. He served as admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, Minister of the Navy, and Prime Minister of Japan in 1940. Early life and career Yonai was born on 2 March 1880, in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, the fir ...

, , 1321 , - , , 1323 , , , On occupied Iran declared war on Japan under pressure from Britain and Russia.

Ali Soheili Ali Soheili ( fa, علی سهیلی; 1896 – 1 May 1958) was a Prime Minister of Iran. Born in Tabriz, he served as Prime Minister in 1942, and Ambassador to Britain in 1953. He has studied at Saint Louis school in Tehran. The Tehran Confe ...

ordered the interruption of his diplomatic relation with the Japanese government and summoned

to Tehran. This breakup continued until . ,

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ( fa, محمدرضا پهلوی, ; 26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980), also known as Mohammad Reza Shah (), was the last ''Shah'' (King) of the Imperial State of Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow in the Irani ...

, Shidehara Kijūrō , , 1332 , - , , 1333 ,

Musa Nuri Esfandiari Musa Nuri Esfandiari ( fa, موسی نوری اسفندیاری; 1894–1972) was an Iranian diplomat and served as foreign minister and as ambassador during the Pahlavi era. Early life and education Esfandiari was born in Tehran in 1894. He ...

, fa, موسی نوری اسفندیاری , , Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi ,

Hatoyama Ichirō Hatoyama (written: 鳩山, lit. ''dove mountain'') may refer to: People with the surname * Hatoyama family, a prominent Japanese political family **Kazuo Hatoyama (1856–1911), academic and politician **Haruko Hatoyama (1861–1938), educator and ...

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Hossein Ghods-Nakhai Hossein Ghods-Nakhaï ( fa, حسین قدس نخعی‎; GCVO 1894–1977) was an Iranian politician, cabinet minister, diplomat, and poet. Early life He was the son of the Iranian clerk, Hajj Agha Hasan Nakhai. His brother was Muhammad N ...

, fa, حسین قدس نخعی , , Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi ,

Kishi Nobusuke was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. Known for his exploitative rule of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in Northeast China in the 1930s, Kishi was nicknamed the "Monster of the Shō ...

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Abbas Aram Abbas Aram (1906–1985) was an Iranian diplomat and served as foreign minister for two terms between 1959 and 1960 and between 1962 and 1966. In addition, he was the ambassador of Iran to various countries, including Iraq, the United Kingdo ...

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Javad Sadr Javad Sadr ( fa, جواد صدر; 1912–1990) was an Iranian diplomat and politician who held various public and cabinet posts. He was one of the Iranian ambassadors to Japan. He was the minister of interior and minister of justice in the 1960s. ...

, fa, جواد صدر , , Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi ,

Ikeda Hayato was a Japanese bureaucrat and later politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964. He is best known for his Income Doubling Plan, which promised to double Japan's GDP in ten years. Ikeda is also known for repairing U.S.- ...

, , 1342 , - , , 1342 , Hormoz Qarib ( fa) , fa, هرمز قریب , , Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi ,

Satō Eisaku is the most common Japanese surname, often romanized as Sato, Satoh or Satou. A less common variant is . Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese actress and voice actress *, Japanese actress *, Japanese judoka *, Japanese writer * ...

, , 1347 , - , , 1347 , Fazlollah Nureddin Kia , fa, فضل‌الله نورالدین کیا , , Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi , Satō Eisaku , , 1351 , - , , 1354 , Abdol-Hossein Hamzavi , fa, عبدالحسین حمزاوی , , Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi ,

Fukuda Takeo was a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1976 to 1978. Early life and education Fukuda was born in Gunma, Gunma, Gunma, capital of the Gunma Prefecture on 14 January 1905. He hailed from a former samurai family and his fa ...

, , , - , , 1356 , Naser Majd Ardakani , fa, ناصر مجد اردکانی , , Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi , Ōhira Masayoshi , , 1358 , - , , 1358 , Qasem Salehkhu , fa, قاسم صالح‌خو , ,

Abolhassan Banisadr Seyyed Abolhassan Banisadr ( fa, سید ابوالحسن بنی‌صدر; 22 March 1933 – 9 October 2021) was an Iranian politician, writer, and political dissident. He was the first president of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution abolis ...

, Suzuki Zenkō , , , - , , 1361 , Abdorrahim Govahi ( ja) , fa, عبدالرحیم گواهی , ,

Ali Khamenei Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president o ...

Nakasone Yasuhiro was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 1982 to 1987. He was a member of the House of Representatives for more than 50 years. He was best known for pushing through the ...

, , 1365 , - , , 1365 , Mohammad Hossein Adeli , fa, محمدحسین عادلی , , Ali Khamenei , Nakasone Yasuhiro , , , - , , 1369 , Hossein Kazempour Ardabili , fa, حسین کاظم‌پور اردبیلی , ,

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ( fa, اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی, Akbar Hāshemī Rafsanjānī, born Akbar Hashemi Bahramani, 25 August 1934 – 8 January 2017) was an Iranian politician, writer, and one of the founding fathers of the Islami ...

Miyazawa Kiichi was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1991 to 1993. He was a member of the National Diet, National Diet of Japan for over 50 years. Early life and education Miyazawa was born into a wealthy, politically active fam ...

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Manouchehr Mottaki Manouchehr Mottaki ( fa, منوچهر متکی; born 12 May 1953) is an Iranian politician and diplomat. He was the Iranian minister of foreign affairs. Whilst technically appointed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he is considered to be closer to more pr ...

, fa, منوچهر متکی , , Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , Murayama Tomiichi , , , - , , 1378 , Ali Majedi ( fa) , fa, علی ماجدی , ,

Mohammad Khatami Sayyid Mohammad Khatami ( fa, سید محمد خاتمی, ; born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian politician who served as the fifth president of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 to ...

, Mori Yoshirō , , , - , , 1382 , Mohsen Talaei , fa, محسن طلایی , , Mohammad Khatami , Koizumi Jun’ichirō , , , - , , 1385 ,

Abbas Araghchi Seyed Abbas Araghchi ( fa, سید عباس عراقچی, ; born 5 December 1962 in Tehran) is an Iranian diplomat who is the former political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran from 2017 to 2021. He previously held office as the D ...

, fa, سید عباس عراقچی , ,

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( fa, محمود احمدی‌نژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadīnežād ), born Mahmoud Sabbaghian ( fa, محمود صباغیان, Mahmoud Sabbāghyān, 28 October 1956),

, Asō Tarō , , , - , , 1389 , Majid Mojtahed Shabestari , fa, مجید مجتهد شبستری ,

Chargé d'affaires A ''chargé d'affaires'' (), plural ''chargés d'affaires'', often shortened to ''chargé'' (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to ''charge-D'', is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador ...

is a brother of Mohammad Mojtahed-Shabestari (1936–) Hojjat al-Islam. The third brother, Ali Ashraf Mojtahed-Shabestari, served as ambassador to Tajikistan, ambassador and assistant to the Permanent Representative Office of Iran at the Geneva office of the United Nations, head of the Foreign Ministry's Finance , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Noda Yoshihiko , , , - , , 1397 , Reza Nazar-Ahari , fa, رضا نظرآهاری , , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Noda Yoshihiko , , , - , , 1397 , Morteza Rahmani-Movahed ( ja) , fa, مرتضی رحمانی موحد , ,

Hassan Rouhani Hassan Rouhani ( fa, حسن روحانی, Standard Persian pronunciation: ; born Hassan Fereydoun ( fa, حسن فریدون, links=no); 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. ...

Shinzō Abe Shinzo Abe ( ; ja, 安倍晋三, Hepburn: , ; 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 20 ...

, 2022 , 1400 , - , , 1400 , Mohammad Reza Loghmani , fa, محمد رضا لقمانی , Chargé d'Affaires ,

Ebrahim Raisi Sayyid Ebrahim Raisolsadati ( fa, سید ابراهیم رئیس‌الساداتی; born 14 December 1960), commonly known as Ebrahim Raisi ( fa, ابراهیم رئیسی ), is an Iranian principlist politician, Muslim jurist, and the eight ...

Fumio Kishida is a Japanese politician serving as Prime Minister of Japan and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 2021. A member of the House of Representatives, he previously served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2017 and ...

, 2023 , 1401 , - , , 1401 , Peyman Saadat , fa, پیمان سعادت , ,

, , Ehsan Yar-Shater,

Encyclopædia Iranica ''Encyclopædia Iranica'' is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times. Scope The ''Encycl ...

Routledge Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law, and ...

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