List of heads of missions of Japan

List of heads of missions of Japan abroad. Some diplomats are accredited to more than one country.

Host Country	Location	Name and Designation
Afghanistan	Kabul	Takashi Okada, Ambassador
Albania	Tirana	Takada Mitsuyuki, Ambassador
Algeria	Algiers	Kono Akira, Ambassador
Angola	Luanda	Mr. Jiro Maruhashi, Ambassador
Argentina	Buenos Aires	Nakamae Takahiro, Ambassador
Armenia	Yerevan	Mr. Masanori Fukushima, Ambassador
Australia	Canberra	Yamagami Shingo, Ambassador
Australia	Sydney	Kiya Masahiko, Consul General
Australia	West Perth	Mr. Toru Suzuki, Consul General
Australia	Melbourne	Shimada Junji, Consul General
Australia	Brisbane	Kazunari Tanaka, Consul General
Austria	Vienna	Akira Mizutani, Ambassador
Azerbaijan	Baku	Teruyuki Katori, Ambassador
Bahrain	Manama	Hideki Ito, Ambassador
Bangladesh	Dhaka	Ito Naoki, Ambassador
Barbados	Bridgetown	Teruhiko Shinada, Ambassador
Belarus	Minsk	Tokunaga Hiroki, Ambassador
Belgium	Brussels	Makita Shimokawa, Ambassador
Belize	Belmopan	Mr. Masaya Fujiwara, Ambassador
Benin	Cotonou	Tsugawa Takahisa, Ambassador
Bolivia	La Paz	Hokida Osamu, Ambassador
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Mr. Makoto ITO, Ambassador
Botswana	Gaborone	Hoshiyama Takashi, Ambassador
Brazil	Brasília - DF	Akira Yamada, Ambassador
Brazil	Curitiba	Wakaeda Kazuu, Consul General
Brazil	Rio de Janeiro	Ken Hashiba, Consul General
Brazil	São Paulo	Kuwana Ryosuke, Consul General
Brazil	Recife	Hiroaki Sano, Consul General
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	Eiji Yamamoto, Ambassador
Bulgaria	Sofia	Hiroshi Narahira, Ambassador
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	Monsieur Kato Masaaki, Ambassador
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Mikami, Ambassador
Cameroon	Yaoundé	Tsutomu Osawa, Ambassador
Canada	Ottawa	KAWAMURA Yasuhisa, Ambassador
Canada	Montreal	Osamu Izawa, Consul General
Canada	Toronto	Sasayama Takuya, Consul General
Canada	Vancouver	Hatori Takashi, Consul General
Canada	Calgary	Uchida Tatsukuni, Consul General
Chile	Santiago	Kazuhisa Shibuya, Ambassador
China	Beijing	Yokoi Yoko, Ambassador
China	Shenyang	Gakumi Katae, Consul General
China	Guangzhou	Keiji Kamei, Consul General
China	Shanghai	Mr Akio Isomata, Consul General
China	Chongqing	Nobuyuki Watanabe, Consul General
Colombia	Bogotá	Keiichiro Morishita, Ambassador
Congo (Democratic Republic)	Kinshasa	Monsieur Hiroyuki Minami, Ambassador
Costa Rica	San José	Komatsu Shinjiro, Ambassador
Croatia	Zagreb	Misako Kaji, Ambassador
Cuba	Havana	Kenji Hirata, Ambassador
Cyprus	Nicosia	Ms. Seki Izumi, Ambassador
Czech Republic	Praha	Hideo Suzuki, Ambassador
Denmark	Copenhagen	Miyagawa Manabu, Ambassador
Djibouti	Djibouti	Otsuka Umio, Ambassador
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	Hiroyuki Makiuchi, Ambassador
East Timor	Dili	Kinefuchi Masami, Ambassador
Ecuador	Quito	Yuji Sudo, Ambassador
Ecuador	Guayaquil	Jilliam Paredes, Honorary Consul General
Egypt	Cairo	Mr. Masaki Noke, Ambassador
El Salvador	San Salvador	Ariyoshi Katsuhide, Ambassador
Estonia	Tallinn	Kitaoka Hajime, Ambassador
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	ITO Takako, Ambassador
Fiji	Suva	Mr. Kawakami Fumihiro, Ambassador
Finland	Helsinki	Fujimura Kazuhiro, Ambassador
France	Paris	Ihara Junichi, Ambassador
France	Strasbourg	Mr. Takeshi Akamatsu, Consul General
France	Marseille	Mr. Yukuo Murata, Consul General
France	Lille	M. Patrick Lesaffre, Honorary Consul
France	Toulouse	M. Frédéric Reynes, Honorary Consul
France	Bordeaux	M. Bruno Lacoste, Honorary Consul
France	Papeete	M. Narii Faugerat, Honorary Consul
Gabon	Libreville	Mr. Noguchi Shuji, Ambassador
Georgia	Tbilisi	Mr. Imamura Akira, Ambassador
Germany	Berlin	Yanagi Hidenao, Ambassador
Germany	Frankfurt am Main	Setsuko Kawahara, Consul General
Germany	Hamburg	Kikuko Kato, Consul General
Germany	Munich	Tetsuya Kimura, Consul General
Germany	Düsseldorf	Iwama Kiminori, Consul General
Ghana	Accra	Tsutomu Himeno, Ambassador
Greece	Athens	Yasunori Nakayama, Ambassador
Guatemala	Guatemala City	Yamamoto Tsuyoshi, Ambassador
Guinea	Conakry	Matsubara Hideo, Ambassador
Guyana	Georgetown	Mr. Kashir Ahamad Khan, Consul General
Haiti	Pétion-Ville	Mitsuaki Mizuno, Ambassador
Holy See	Rome	Okada Seiji, Ambassador
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	Norio Fukuta, Ambassador
Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Okada Kenichi, Consul General
Hungary	Budapest	Masato Otaka, Ambassador
Iceland	Reykjavik	Ryotaro Suzuki, Ambassador
India	New Delhi	Mr. Satoshi Suzuki, Ambassador
India	Kolkata	Nakamura Yutaka, Consul General
India	Chennai	Taga Masayuki, Consul General
India	Mumbai	Dr. Fukahori Yasukata, Consul General
India	Bengaluru	Ms. Sugita Akiko, Consul General
Indonesia	Jakarta	Kanasugi Kenji, Ambassador
Indonesia	Medan	Ken Ishii, Consul General
Indonesia	Surabaya	Mr. Takeyama Kenichi, Consul General
Indonesia	Denpasar	Katsumata Harumi, Consul General
Iran	Tehran	Mitsugo Saito, Ambassador
Iraq	Baghdad	Naofumi Hashimoto, Ambassador
Ireland	Dublin	Mitsuru Kitano, Ambassador
Israel	Tel Aviv	Mizushima Koichi, Ambassador
Italy	Rome	Hiroshi OE, Ambassador
Italy	Milan	Amamiya Yuji, Consul General
Ivory Coast	Abidjan	Mr. Hideaki Kuramitsu, Ambassador
Jamaica	Kingston	Mr. Masaya Fujiwara, Ambassador
Jordan	Amman	Shimazaki Kaoru, Ambassador
Kazakhstan	Nur-Sultan	Mr. Jun Yamada, Ambassador
Kenya	Nairobi	Mr. Ryoichi Horie, Ambassador
Kosovo	Pristina	Akira Mizutani, Ambassador
Kuwait	Kuwait City	Mr. Takaoka Masato, Ambassador
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	Yoshihiro Yamamura, Ambassador
Laos	Vientiane	Takeshi Hikihara, Ambassador
Latvia	Riga	Jasuhiro Kavaguci, Ambassador
Lebanon	Beirut	Mr. Okubo Takesh, Ambassador
Liechtenstein	Schaan	Dr. Donat P. Marxer, Honorary Consul General
Lithuania	Vilnius	Mr. Toyoei Shigeeda, Ambassador
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	Okuyama Jiro, Ambassador
Madagascar	Antananarivo	Higuchi Yoshihiro, Ambassador
Malawi	Lilongwe	Kae Yanagisawa, Ambassador
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Oka Hiroshi, Ambassador
Malaysia	Penang	Orikasa Hiroyuki, Consul General
Maldives	Malé	Keiko Yanai, Ambassador
Malta	Floriana	Chev. Hubert Mifsud, Honorary Consul General
Marshall Islands	Majuro	Norio Saito, Ambassador
Mauritania	Nouakchott	Ehara Norio, Ambassador
Mauritius	Ebène	Kawaguchi Shuichiro, Ambassador
Mexico	Mexico, D.F.	Yasushi Takase, Ambassador
Mexico	León	Katsumi Itagaki, Consul General
Mexico	San Pedro Garza García	Ing. Tomás Roberto González Sada, Honorary Consul General
Mexico	Tijuana	Arq. Luis Augusto Lutteroth del Riego, Honorary Consul General
Micronesia	Pohnpei	Sobashima Hidenobu, Ambassador
Moldova	Chișinău	Yoshihiro Katayama, Ambassador
Monaco	Monaco	Eric Benchimol, Honorary Consul General
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	Kobayashi, Ambassador
Morocco	Rabat	Shinozuka Takashi, Ambassador
Mozambique	Maputo	Hajime Kimura, Ambassador
Myanmar	Yangon	Mr. Maruyama Ichiro, Ambassador
Namibia	Windhoek	Hideaki Harada, Ambassador
Nepal	Kathmandu	Mr. Kikuta Yutaka, Ambassador
Netherlands	The Hague	Horinouchi Hidehisa, Ambassador
Netherlands	Amsterdam	Mr. Jos ter Avest, Honorary Consul General
Netherlands	Rotterdam	Mr. Albert H. Geerling, Honorary Consul General
New Caledonia	Nouméa	Corinne Mori, Honorary Consul
New Zealand	Wellington	Koichi Ito, Ambassador
New Zealand	Auckland	Hamada Shinichi, Consul General
Nicaragua	Managua	Yasuhisa Suzuki, Ambassador
Nigeria	Abuja	Mr. Matsunaga Kazuyoshi, Ambassador
North Macedonia	Skopje	Sawada Hironori, Ambassador
Norway	Oslo	Kawamura Hiroshi, Ambassador
Oman	Muscat	Toshinori Kobayashi, Ambassador
Pakistan	Islamabad	Mr. Mitsuhiro Wada, Ambassador
Pakistan	Karachi	Mr. Toshikazu Isomura, Consul General
Pakistan	Lahore	Mr. Aamir H. Shirazi, Honorary Consul General
Pakistan	Peshawar	Nawabzada Fazal Karim Afridi, Honorary Consul General
Pakistan	Quetta	Syed Nadeem Shah, Honorary Consul General
Palau	Koror	Karasawa Akira, Ambassador
Palestine	Ramallah	Masayuki Magoshi, Ambassador
Panama	Panama City	Takashi Owaki, Ambassador
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	Kuniyuki Nakahara, Ambassador
Paraguay	Asunción	Nakatani-Otsuka Yoshie, Ambassador
Peru	Lima	Sadayuki Tsuchiya, Ambassador
Philippines	Pasay City	Koshikawa Kazuhiko, Ambassador
Philippines	Cebu City	Toshihide Kawasaki, Consul General
Poland	Warsaw	Miyajima Akio, Ambassador
Poland	Kraków	Mr Krzysztof Ingarden, Honorary Consul General
Portugal	Lisbon	Jun Niimi, Ambassador
Qatar	Doha	Kazuo Sunaga, Ambassador
Romania	Bucharest	E.S. Domnul Hiroshi Ueda, Ambassador
Russia	Moscow	Toyohisa Kozuki, Ambassador
Rwanda	Kigali	Masahiro Imai, Ambassador
Samoa	Apia	Genichi Terasawa, Ambassador
San Marino	Domagnano	Mr. Leo Achilli, Honorary Consul General
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Iwai Fumio, Ambassador
Saudi Arabia	Jeddah	Shimmura Izuru, Consul General
Senegal	Dakar	Mr. Tatsuo Arai, Ambassador
Serbia	Belgrade	Junichi Maruyama, Ambassador
Seychelles	Victoria	Ryoichi Horie, Ambassador
Singapore	Singapore	Jun Yamazaki, Ambassador
Slovakia	Bratislava	Nakagawa Makoto, Ambassador
Slovenia	Ljubljana	Hiromichi Matsushima, Ambassador
Solomon Islands	Honiara	Yasuhiro Morimoto, Ambassador
South Africa	Pretoria	Mr. Maruyama Norio, Ambassador
South Korea	Seoul	Yasumasa Nagamine, Ambassador
South Korea	Busan	Kohei Maruyama, Consul General
South Sudan	Juba	Naohiro Tsutsumi, Ambassador
Spain	Madrid	Hiramatsu Kenji, Ambassador
Spain	Barcelona	Sato Yasushi, Consul General
Sri Lanka	Colombo	Mr. Akira Sugiyama, Ambassador
Sudan	Khartoum	Shinji Urabayashi, Ambassador
Sweden	Stockholm	Noke Masaki, Ambassador
Sweden	Gothenburg	Claes Grill, Honorary Consul General
Sweden	Malmö	Leif Almö, Honorary Consul General
Switzerland	Bern	Shiraishi Kojiro, Ambassador
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	Mr. Takayuki Miyashita, Ambassador
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	Shinichi Goto, Ambassador
Thailand	Bangkok	Nashida Kazuya, Ambassador
Thailand	Chiang Mai	Hiroshi Matsumoto, Consul General
Tonga	Nuku'alofa	Mr. Munenaga Kensaku, Ambassador
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	Tatsuo Hirayama, Ambassador
Tunisia	Mahrajène	Shinsuke Shimizu, Ambassador
Turkey	Ankara	Akio Miyajima, Ambassador
Turkey	Istanbul	Hisao Nishimaki, Consul General
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Ambassador
Uganda	Kampala	Fukuzawa Hidemoto, Ambassador
Ukraine	Kiev	Takashi Kurai, Ambassador
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	Akio Isomata, Ambassador
United Kingdom	London	Mr Hayashi Hajime, Ambassador
United Kingdom	Edinburgh	Angus Robertson, Consul General
United Kingdom	Manchester	Ms Jo Ahmed, Honorary Consul
United Kingdom	Cardiff	Mr Keith M Dunn, OBE KStJ, Honorary Consul
United States	Washington, D.C.	TOMITA Koji, Ambassador
United States	Atlanta	Kazuyuki Takeuchi, Consul General
United States	Boston	Setsuo Ohmori, Consul General
United States	New York	Kanji Yamanouchi, Consul General
United States	San Francisco	Maeda Toru, Consul General
United States	Nashville	Kayoko Fukushima, Consul General
United States	Chicago	Kenichi Okada, Consul General
United States	Denver	Midori Takeuchi, Consul General
United States	Honolulu	Yutaka Aoki, Consul General
United States	Houston	Hideo Fukushima, Consul General
United States	Los Angeles	Muto Akira, Consul General
United States	Miami	Kenji Hirata, Consul General
United States	Seattle	Inagaki Hisao, Consul General
United States	New Orleans	Donna D. Fraiche, Honorary Consul
Uruguay	Montevideo	Tastuhiro Shindo, Ambassador
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	Yoshinori Fujiyama, Ambassador
Vanuatu	Port Vila	Mr. Chiba Hirohisa, Ambassador
Venezuela	Caracas	Kenji Okada, Ambassador
Vietnam	Hanoi	Umeda Kunio, Ambassador
Zambia	Lusaka	Ryuta Mizuuchi, Ambassador
Zimbabwe	Harare	Mr. Satoshi Tanaka, Ambassador

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