List of diplomatic missions of Japan

This is a list of diplomatic missions of Japan. Japan sent ambassadors to the Tang Chinese court in Xi'an since 607 AD, as well as to the Koryo and Joseon dynasties of early Korea.[1] For centuries, early modern Japan did not actively seek to expand its foreign relations. The first Japanese ambassadors to a Western country travelled to Spain in 1613. Japan did not open an embassy in the United States (in Washington, D.C.) until 1860.

Diplomatic missions of Japan

Honorary consulates are excluded from this listing.

Current missions

Africa
Host country City Mission level Head of mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Algeria Algiers Embassy Akira Kōno [2]
 Angola Luanda Embassy Jirō Maruhashi [2]
 Benin Cotonou Embassy Takahisa Tsugawa [2]
 Botswana Gaborone Embassy Takashi Hoshiyama
International Organizations:
 [2][3]
 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou Embassy Masaaki Katō [2]
 Cameroon Yaoundé Embassy Tsumotu Ōsawa
Countries:
 [2]
 Congo-Kinshasa Kinshasa Embassy Hiroyuki Minami
Countries:
 [2]
 Djibouti Djibouti City Embassy Umio Ōtsuka [2]
 Egypt Cairo Embassy Masaki Noke [2]
 Ethiopia Addis Ababa Embassy Takako Itō [2]
 Gabon Libreville Embassy Shūji Noguchi
Countries:
 [2]
 Ghana Accra Embassy Tsutomu Himeno
Countries:
 [2]
 Guinea Conakry Embassy Hideo Matsubara [2]
 Ivory Coast Abidjan Embassy Hideaki Kuramitsu
Countries:
 [2]
 Kenya Nairobi Embassy Ryōichi Horie
Countries:
International Organizations:
 [2][4]
 Madagascar Antananarivo Embassy Yoshihiro Higuchi
Countries:
 [2]
 Malawi Lilongwe Embassy Kae Yanagisawa [2]
 Mali Bamako Embassy Daisuke Kuroki [2]
 Mauritania Nouakchott Embassy Norio Ehara [2]
 Mauritius Port Louis Embassy Shūichirō Kawaguchi [2]
 Morocco Rabat Embassy Takashi Shinozuka [2]
 Mozambique Maputo Embassy Hajime Kimura [2]
 Namibia Windhoek Embassy Hideaki Harada [2]
 Nigeria Abuja Embassy Kazuyoshi Matsunaga [2]
 Rwanda Kigali Embassy Masahiro Imai [2]
 Senegal Dakar Embassy Tatsuo Arai
Countries:
 [2]
 Seychelles Victoria[lower-alpha 2] Embassy Makoto Tominaga
Chargé d'Affaires, a.i.		 [2][5]
 South Africa Pretoria Embassy Norio Maruyama
Countries:
 [2]
Cape Town Consular Office Jirō Nishimura [2]
 South Sudan Juba Embassy Naohiro Tsutsumi [2]
 Sudan Khartoum Embassy Takashi Hattori [2]
 Tanzania Dar es Salaam Embassy Shinichi Gotō [2]
 Tunisia Tunis Embassy Shinsuke Shimizu
Countries:
 [2]
 Uganda Kampala Embassy Hidemoto Fukuzawa [2]
 Zambia Lusaka Embassy Ryūta Mizuuchi [2]
 Zimbabwe Harare Embassy Satoshi Tanaka [2]

Americas
Host country Host city Mission level Head of mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Argentina Buenos Aires Embassy Takahiro Nakamae [6]
 Barbados Bridgetown Embassy Teruhiko Shinada [6]
 Belize Belmopan Embassy Kazuhiro Iryu [6]
 Bolivia La Paz Embassy Osamu Hokida [6]
Santa Cruz Consular Office [6]
 Brazil Brasília Embassy Akira Yamada [7]
Curitiba Consulate General Masahiro Takagi [6]
Manaus Consulate General Masahiro Ogino [6]
Recife Consulate General Hiroaki Sano [6]
Rio de Janeiro Consulate General Ken Hashiba [6]
São Paulo Consulate General Ryōsuke Kuwana [6]
Belém Consulate Keiji Hamada [7]
Porto Alegre Consular Office [6]
 Canada Ottawa Embassy Yasuhisa Kawamura [8]
Calgary Consulate General Tatsukuni Uchida [8]
Montreal Consulate General Osamu Izawa [8]
Toronto Consulate General Takuya Sasayama [8]
Vancouver Consulate General Takashi Hatori [8]
 Chile Santiago de Chile Embassy Kazuhisa Shibuya [6]
 Colombia Bogotá Embassy Keiichirō Morishita [6]
 Costa Rica San José Embassy Shinjirō Komatsu [6]
 Cuba Havana Embassy Kenji Hirata [6]
 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo Embassy Hiroyuki Makiuchi [6]
 Ecuador Quito Embassy Yūji Sudō [6]
 El Salvador San Salvador Embassy Katsuhide Ariyoshi [6]
 Guatemala Guatemala City Embassy Tsuyoshi Yamamoto [6]
 Haiti Port-au-Prince Embassy Mitsuaki Mizuno [6]
 Honduras Tegucigalpa Embassy Norio Fukuta [6]
 Jamaica Kingston Embassy Masaya Fujiwara
Countries:
International Organizations:
 [6][9]
 Mexico Mexico City Embassy Noriteru Fukushima [6]
León Consulate General Katsumi Itagaki [6]
 Nicaragua Managua Embassy Yasuhisa Suzuki [6]
 Panama Panama City Embassy Takashi Ōwaki [6]
 Paraguay Asunción Embassy Yoshie Nakatani [6]
Encarnación Consular Office Shōichi Kagatami [6]
 Peru Lima Embassy Kazuyuki Katayama [6]
 Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Embassy Tatsuo Hirayama
Countries:
International Organizations:
 [6][9]
 United States Washington, D.C. Embassy Kōji Tomita
International Organizations:
 [8][10]
Atlanta Consulate General Kazuyuki Takeuchi [8]
Boston Consulate General Setsuo Ohmori [8]
Chicago Consulate General Kenichi Okada [8]
Denver Consulate General Midori Takeuchi [8]
Detroit Consulate General [8]
Hagåtña Consulate General Toshiaki Kobayashi [8]
Honolulu Consulate General Yutaka Aoki [8]
Houston Consulate General Hideo Fukushima [8]
Los Angeles Consulate General Akira Muto [8]
Miami Consulate General Kenji Hirata [8]
Nashville Consulate General Kayoko Fukushima [8]
New York City Consulate General Kanji Yamanouchi [8]
San Francisco Consulate General Toru Maeda [8]
Seattle Consulate General Hisao Inagaki [8]
Anchorage Consular Office Masaru Aniya [8]
Portland Consular Office Masaki Shiga [8]
Saipan Consular Office Kazuhiko Ono [8]
 Uruguay Montevideo Embassy Tatsuhirō Shindō [6]
 Venezuela Caracas Embassy Kenji Okada [6]

Asia
Host country Host city Mission level Head of mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Armenia Yerevan Embassy Masanori Fukushima [11]
 Azerbaijan Baku Embassy Junichi Wada [11][12]
 Bahrain Manama Embassy Masayuki Miyamoto [13]
 Bangladesh Dhaka Embassy Naoki Itō [7]
 Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Embassy Eiji Yamamoto [7]
 Cambodia Phnom Penh Embassy Masahiro Mikami [7]
Siem Reap Consular office [7]
 China Beijing Embassy Hideo Tarumi [7]
Chongqing Consulate General Nobuyuki Watanabe [7]
Guangzhou Consulate General Keiji Kamei [7]
Hong Kong Consulate General Mitsuhiro Wada [7]
Qingdao Consulate General Ken Igawahara [7]
Shanghai Consulate General Akio Isomata [7]
Shenyang Consulate General Takashi Katae [7][14]
Dalian Consular office [7]
 East Timor Dili Embassy Masami Kinefuchi [7]
 Georgia Tbilisi Embassy Akira Imamura [11]
 India New Delhi Embassy Satoshi Suzuki
Countries:
 [7]
Bengaluru Consulate General Akiko Sugita [7]
Chennai Consulate General Masayuki Taga [7]
Kolkata Consulate General Yutaka Nakamura [7]
Mumbai Consulate General Yasukata Fukahori [7]
 Indonesia Jakarta Embassy Kenji Kanasugi [7]
Denpasar Consulate General Harumi Katsumata [7]
Medan Consulate General Takeshi Ishii [7]
Surabaya Consulate General [7]
Makassar Consular office Katsunobu Yasue [7]
 Iran Tehran Embassy Kazutoshi Ikawa [13]
 Iraq Baghdad Embassy Kotarō Suzuki [13][15]
Erbil Consular office Mikihiro Arakawa [13]
 Israel Tel Aviv Embassy Kōichi Mizushima [13]
 Jordan Amman Embassy Kaoru Shimazaki [13]
 Kazakhstan Nur-Sultan Embassy Jun Yamada [11]
 Kuwait Kuwait City Embassy Masato Takaoka [13]
 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Embassy Shigeki Maeda [11]
 Laos Vientiane Embassy Keizo Takewaka [7]
 Lebanon Beirut Embassy Takeshi Ōkubo
Countries:
 [13]
 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Embassy [7]
George Town Consulate General [7]
Kota Kinabalu Consular office [7]
 Maldives Malé Embassy Keiko Yanai [7]
 Mongolia Ulaanbataar Embassy Hiroyuki Kobayashi [7]
 Myanmar Yangon Embassy Ichirō Maruyama [7]
   Nepal Kathmandu Embassy Yutaka Kikuta [7]
 Oman Muscat Embassy Toshinori Kobayashi [13]
 Pakistan Islamabad Embassy Kuninori Matsuda [7]
Karachi Consulate General Toshikazu Isomura [7]
 Palestine Ramallah Representative office Masayuki Magoshi [13]
 Philippines Manila Embassy Kazuhiko Koshikawa [7]
Cebu City Consulate General Toshihide Kawasaki [7]
Davao City Consulate General Yoshiaki Miwa [7]
 Qatar Doha Embassy Kazuo Sunaga [13]
 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Embassy Fumio Iwai
Countries:
 [13]
Jeddah Consulate General Izuru Shimmura [13]
 Singapore Singapore Embassy Jun Yamazaki [7]
 South Korea Seoul Embassy Kōichi Aiboshi [7]
Busan Consulate General Kōhei Maruyama [7]
Jeju City Consulate General Yoshiyasu Iseki [7]
 Sri Lanka Colombo Embassy Akira Sugiyama [7]
 Taiwan Taipei Japan–Taiwan Exchange Association Hiroyasu Izumi [16]
Kaohsiung Japan–Taiwan Exchange Association, Kaohsiung office Eiji Kato [16]
 Tajikistan Dushanbe Embassy Takayuki Miyashita [11]
 Thailand Bangkok Embassy Kazuya Nashida [7]
Chiang Mai Consulate General Hiroshi Matsumoto [7]
 Turkey Ankara Embassy Kazuhiro Suzuki [13]
Istanbul Consulate General Hisao Nishimaki [13]
 Turkmenistan Ashgabat Embassy Hiroyuki Yamamoto [11]
 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Embassy Akihiko Nakajima [13]
Dubai Consulate General Noboru Sekiguchi [13]
 Uzbekistan Tashkent Embassy Yoshinori Fujiyama [11]
 Vietnam Hanoi Embassy Takio Yamada [7]
Ho Chi Minh City Consulate General Nobuhiro Watanabe [7]
Da Nang Consular office [7]

Europe
Host country Host city Mission level Head of mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Albania Tirana Embassy Mitsuyuki Takada [11]
 Austria Vienna Embassy Akira Mizutani [11]
 Belarus Minsk Embassy Hiroki Tokunaga [11]
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Embassy Makoto Itō [11]
 Belgium Brussels Embassy Makita Shimokawa
International Organizations:
 [11]
 Bulgaria Sofia Embassy Hiroshi Narahira [11]
 Croatia Zagreb Embassy Misako Kaji [11]
 Cyprus Nicosia Embassy Izumi Seki [11]
 Czechia Prague Embassy Hideo Suzuki [11]
 Denmark Copenhagen Embassy Manabu Miyagawa [11]
 Estonia Tallinn Embassy Hajime Kitaoka [11]
 Finland Helsinki Embassy Takashi Murata [11]
 France Paris Embassy Junichi Ihara
Countries:
 [11]
Marseille Consulate General Yukuo Murata [11]
Strasbourg Consulate General Takeshi Akamatsu [11]
Lyon Consular Office Kenji Kuratomi [11]
 Germany Berlin Embassy Hidenao Yanagi [11]
Düsseldorf Consulate General Kiminori Iwama [11]
Frankfurt Consulate General [11]
Hamburg Consulate General Kikuko Kato [11]
Munich Consulate General Nobutaka Maekawa [11]
 Greece Athens Embassy Yasunori Nakayama [11]
  Holy See Rome[note 1] Embassy Seiji Okada [11]
 Hungary Budapest Embassy Masato Ohtaka [11][17]
 Iceland Reykjavík Embassy Ryōtarō Suzuki [11]
 Ireland Dublin Embassy Mitsuru Kitano [11]
 Italy Rome Embassy Hiroshi Oe
Countries:
International Organizations:
 [11][18]
Milan Consulate General Yuji Amamiya [11]
 Kosovo Pristina[lower-alpha 4] Embassy Mitsunori Osagawara
Chargé d'Affaires, a.i.		 [11][19]
 Latvia Riga Embassy Yasuhiro Kawaguchi [11]
 Lithuania Vilnius Embassy Shirō Yamasaki [11]
 Luxembourg Luxembourg City Embassy Jirō Okuyama [11]
 Moldova Chișinău Embassy Yoshihiro Katayama [11]
 Netherlands The Hague Embassy Hidehisa Horinouchi
International Organizations:
 [11][20]
 North Macedonia Skopje Embassy Hironori Sawada [11]
 Norway Oslo Embassy Hiroshi Kawamura [11]
 Poland Warsaw Embassy Akio Miyajima [11]
 Portugal Lisbon Embassy Shigeru Ushio [11]
 Romania Bucharest Embassy Hiroshi Ueda [11]
 Russia Moscow Embassy Toyohisa Kozuki [11]
Khabarovsk Consulate General Keiko Furuta [11]
Saint Petersburg Consulate General Yasumasa Iijima [11]
Vladivostok Consulate General Koichirō Nakamura [11]
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Consulate General Kazuhiro Kuno [11]
 Serbia Belgrade Embassy Takahiko Katsumata
Countries:
 [11][21]
 Slovakia Bratislava Embassy Makoto Nakagawa [11]
 Slovenia Ljubljana Embassy Hiromichi Matsushima [11]
 Spain Madrid Embassy Kenji Hiramatsu [11]
Barcelona Consulate General Yasushi Sato [11]
Las Palmas Consulate Akira Kusunoki [11]
 Sweden Stockholm Embassy Shigeyuki Hiroki [11]
  Switzerland Bern Embassy Kōjirō Shiraishi
Countries:
 [11]
Geneva Consulate Ken Okaniwa [11]
 Ukraine Kyiv Embassy Takashi Kurai [11]
 United Kingdom London Embassy Hajime Hayashi
International Organizations:
 [11]
Edinburgh Consulate General Nozomu Takaoka [11]

Oceania
Host country Host city Mission level Head of mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 Australia Canberra Embassy Shingo Yamagami [22]
Brisbane Consulate General Kazunari Tanaka [22]
Melbourne Consulate General Junji Shimada [22]
Perth Consulate General Toru Suzuki [22]
Sydney Consulate General Masahiko Kiya [22]
Cairns Consular Office Tetsumi Murata [22]
 Fiji Suva Embassy Fumihiro Kawakami
Countries:
 [22]
 Marshall Islands Majuro Embassy Hidenobu Sobashima [22]
 Micronesia Pohnpei Embassy Norio Saitō [22]
 New Zealand Wellington Embassy Koichi Itō
Countries:
 [22]
Auckland Consulate General Shinichi Hamada [22]
Christchurch Consular Office Masaya Tanigawa [22]
 Palau Koror Embassy Akira Karasawa [22]
 Papua New Guinea Port Moresby Embassy Kuniyuki Nakahara [22]
 Samoa Apia Embassy Genichi Terasawa [22]
 Solomon Islands Honiara Embassy Yasuhiro Morimoto [22]
 Tonga Nukuʻalofa Embassy Kensaku Munenaga [22]
 Vanuatu Port Vila Embassy Hirohisa Chiba [22]

Multilateral organisations
Organization Host city Host country Type of mission Head of mission Concurrent accreditation Ref.
 African Union[lower-alpha 5] Addis Ababa Ethiopia Mission Toshihiko Horiuchi
Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jakarta Indonesia Mission Akira Chiba
Conference on Disarmament Geneva Switzerland Delegation Ichirō Osagawara
 European Union Brussels Belgium Permanent Mission Yasushi Masaki
International Civil Aviation Organization Montreal Canada Delegation Isao Fukushima
OECD Paris France Permanent Delegation Yoshifumi Okamura
 United Nations New York City United States Permanent Mission Kimihiro Ishikane
Geneva Switzerland Permanent Mission Kazuyuki Yamazaki
International Organizations:
Vienna Austria Permanent Mission Takeshi Hikihira
International Organizations:
 UNESCO Paris France Permanent Delegation Atsuyuki Oike
  • Embassy in Accra
  • Embassy in Bangkok
  • Embassy in Beijing
  • Embassy in Berlin
  • Embassy in Bratislava
  • Embassy in Canberra
  • Building hosting the consular office in Cairns
  • Embassy in Copenhagen
  • Embassy in The Hague
  • Embassy to the Holy See in Rome
  • Embassy in Kyiv
  • Embassy in Kuala Lumpur
  • Embassy in Lima
  • Embassy in London
  • Embassy in Madrid
  • Building hosting the embassy in Mexico City
  • Embassy in Moscow
  • Consulate General in Saint Petersburg
  • Embassy in Oslo
  • Embassy in Ottawa
  • Embassy in Paris
  • Embassy in Prague
  • Embassy in Rome
  • Embassy in Sarajevo
  • Embassy in Stockholm
  • Embassy in Tallinn
  • Embassy in Tbilisi
  • Embassy in Warsaw
  • Embassy in Washington, D.C.
  • Consulate-General in Honolulu
  • Embassy in Zagreb
  • Building hosting the embassy in Wellington

Closed missions

Africa
Host country Host city Mission level Year closed Ref.
 Central African Republic Bangui Embassy 1992 [23]
 Libya Tripoli Embassy [24]

Asia
Host country Host city Mission level Year closed Ref.
 Afghanistan Kabul Embassy 2021
 Iran Khorramshahr Consulate General 1997[note 2] [25]
 Malaysia Johor Bahru Consular office 2014 [26]
 South Vietnam Saigon Embassy 1976 [27]
 South Yemen Aden Embassy [28][29]
 Yemen Sana'a Embassy 2015 [30]

Europe
Host country Host city Mission level Year closed Ref.
 Germany Bonn Embassy branch office 2002 [31]
 Lithuania[note 3] Kaunas Consulate 1940 [32]

Oceania
Host country Host city Mission level Year closed Ref.
 Australia Townsville Consulate 1908 [33]

See also

Notes
  1. The Japanese Embassy to the Holy See is located outside Vatican territory in Rome.
  2. Temporarily closed in 1981 due to the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War, was officially declared closed in 1997.
  3. The Baltic states, were occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1941, prompting the closure of missions accredited to Lithuania. From 1941 to 1945, the Baltic states were occupied by Nazi Germany, before finally being re-annexed by the Soviet Union after the Second World War.
  1. Accredited as an observer mission.
  2. Although Japan has a embassy in Victoria, it is the resident ambassador in Kenya that is accredited to Seychelles. The embassy in Victoria is led by a Chargé d'affaires of ambassadorial rank
  3. Accredited as an observer mission.
  4. Although Japan has a resident embassy in Pristina, it is the resident ambassador in Austria that is accredited to Kosovo. The embassy in Pristina is led by a Chargé d'affaires
  5. Accredited as an observer mission.

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