List of ambassadors of France to Japan

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French Ambassador to Japan
Incumbent
Philippe Setton  [ ja ]
since 2020
Inaugural holder Jean 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.

Contents

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 [1]  1858 1858 Napoleon III Kōmei
Charles de Chassiron      1858 1859
Gustave Duchesne de Bellecourt [2]        1859 1863
Léon Roches [3]  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 [4]  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 [5]                     1946 1950 Vincent Auriol Shōwa
Maurice Dejean [6]  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 [7]     2002 2006
Gildas Le Lidec [8]  2006 2007
Philippe Faure [9]  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.

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References

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