This article is a list of diplomats of Japan. *

Yasushi Akashi Yasushi Akashi (明石康 ''Akashi Yasushi'', born January 19, 1931 in Hinai, Akita Prefecture) is a senior Japanese diplomat and United Nations administrator. Overview Akashi graduated with Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of ...

(1931-) * Ken Harada (?-1973) *

Hasekura Tsunenaga was a kirishitan Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyō of Sendai. He was of Japanese imperial descent with ancestral ties to Emperor Kanmu. Other names include Philip Francis Faxicura, Felipe Francisco Faxicura, and Phi ...

(1571-1622) * Inagaki Manjirō (1861-1908) *

Hiroshi Inomata is a Japanese diplomat and Japan's current ambassador to The Netherlands, after a previous mission in Pakistan. Overview Inomata graduated from Waseda University , mottoeng = Independence of scholarship , established = 21 October 1882 , ...

Komura Jutarō was a Japanese statesman and diplomat.

(1855-1911) *

Katsuhiko Oku Katsuhiko Oku (奥克彦 ''Oku Katsuhiko'', 3 January 1958 – 29 November 2003) was a Japanese diplomat who played rugby for Oxford and Waseda University. In Britain he was known as "Katsu". Character and life A very popular and dynamic person ...

(1958-2003) *

Motono Ichirō was a statesman and diplomat, active in Meiji period Japan. Biography Motono was born in Saga, Hizen Province, (modern-day Saga Prefecture). His father, an entrepreneur, was one of the founders of the modern Yomiuri Shimbun. Motono studied law ...

(1862-1918) *

Kenzo Oshima was a Japanese diplomat. Biography Oshima was the recipient of a law degree from the University of Tokyo before joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1967. He served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs f ...

(1943–2021) * Setsuzō Sawada (1884-1976) *

Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who served as vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas, Lithuania. During the Second World War, Sugihara helped thousands of Jews flee Europe by issuing transit visas to them so that they could travel through ...

(1900-1986) *

Tatsuo Kawai was a Japanese diplomat and author. He was a leading proponent of expansionism in Japan before World War II but later became a pacifist and was Japan's first Minister to Australia. Early years Kawai was born in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, ...

(1889-1965) * Kiyoshi Uchiyama *

Tokugawa Iesato Prince was the first head of the Tokugawa clan after the overthrow of the Tokugawa bakufu, and a significant figure in Japanese politics and diplomacy during the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan. When Prince Tokugawa travelled t ...

(1863-1940) *

Tokugawa Iemasa Prince also known as Iyemasa, was a Japanese political figure of the Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was the 17th hereditary head of the former shogunal branch of the Tokugawa clan and the final President of the House of Peers in the ...

(1884 – 1963)

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