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French Ambassador to Japan
Incumbent
Philippe Setton [ja]
since 2020
Inaugural holderJean Daridan
Formation1961 5th Republic

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 of Japanese history.

List of heads of mission

Ambassadors of the Second Empire

Head of mission  Tenure 
begins
 Tenure 
ends
 French Head of State   Japanese emperor 
Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros  1858  1858 Napoleon III Kōmei
Charles de Chassiron      1858  1859
Gustave Duchesne de Bellecourt          1859  1863
Léon Roches  1863  1868
Maxime Outrey  1868  1871 Meiji

Ambassadors of the Third Republic

Head of mission  Tenure 
begins
 Tenure 
ends
 French Head of State   Japanese emperor 
Paul Louis de Turenne  1871  1872 Adolphe Thiers Meiji

 1872  1890 Patrice Mac-Mahon
Jules Grévy
Joseph Adam Sienkiewicz                      1890  1892 Sadi Carnot
Jules Harmand  1894  1905 Jean Casimir-Perier
Félix Faure
Émile Loubet
Gaston Raindre  1905  1909 Armand Fallières
Auguste Gérard  1909  1914 Taishō
Eugène Regnault  1914  1918 Raymond Poincaré
Roger Maugras (chargé d'affaires)  1918  1919
Edmond Bapst  1919  1921 Paul Deschanel
Alexandre Millerand
Gaston Doumergue
Paul Doumer
Paul Claudel  1921  1927
Robert de Billy  1927  1929 Shōwa
Alfred de Martel  1929  1933
Fernand Pila  1935  1936 Albert Lebrun
Henri Pétain
Charles Arsène-Henry [fr]  1937  1943

Ambassadors of the Fourth Republic

Head of mission  Tenure 
begins
 Tenure 
ends
 French Head of State   Japanese emperor 
Zinovi Pechkoff                                    1946  1950 Vincent Auriol Shōwa
Maurice Dejean  1950  1953
Daniel Lévi  1953  1956
Armand Bérard  1956  1959 René Coty

Ambassadors of the Fifth Republic

Head of mission  Tenure 
begins
 Tenure 
ends
 French Head of State   Japanese emperor 
Jean Daridan  1959  1961 Charles de Gaulle Shōwa
Étienne Dennery  1961  1964
François Missoffe  1964  1966
Louis de Guiringaud  1966  1972 Georges Pompidou
François Lefebvre de Laboulaye  1972  1975 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Jean-Pierre Brunet  1975  1977
Louis Dauge  1977  1979
Xavier Daufresne de la Chevalerie  1979  1982 François Mitterrand
André Ross  1982  1985
Gilbert Pérol  1985  1987
Bernard Dorin  1987  1991 Akihito
Loïc Hennekinne  1991  1993
Jean-Bernard Ouvrieu  1993  1998 Jacques Chirac
Maurice Gourdault-Montagne  1998  2002
Bernard Faubournet de Montferrand       2002  2006
Gildas Le Lidec  2006  2007
Philippe Faure  2007  2011 Nicolas Sarkozy
Christian Masset  2011  2014 Francois Hollande
Thierry Dana  2014  2017
Laurent Pic  2017  2020 Emmanuel Macron
Philippe Setton [ja]  2020 Naruhito

See also

Notes

  1. Jean-Marie Thiébaud. Liste des ambassadeurs, consuls généraux et ministres plénipotentiaires de France au Japon Archived 13 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Medzini, Meron. (1971). French Policy in Japan, pp. 20-48., p. 20, at Google Books
  3. Medzini, pp. 71-90., p. 71, at Google Books
  4. Envoyé extraordinaire et ministre plénipotentiaire
  5. Head of the French mission and SCAP liaison (Chef de la mission française de liaison auprès du commandant supérieur allié en Extrême-Orient)
  6. Chief of the French mission and SCAP liaison prior to 5 May 1952; then ambassador
  7. Französische Botschaft in Deutschland, Lebenslauf Botschafter Bernard de Montferrand Archived 25 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  8. "officiel de la République française (JORF), n°8 du 10 janvier 2006 page texte n° 44". Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  9. "Journal officiel de la République française (JORF), n°275 du 27 novembre 2007 page texte n° 19". Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2010.

References

The initial draft of this article was developed using material found at Ambassade de France au Japon in the French Misplaced Pages.
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