List of ambassadors of India to Japan

Ambassador of India to Japan
Incumbent Sibi George since 2023
Style	His Excellency
Nominator	Droupadi Murmu
Inaugural holder	K. K. Chettur
Formation	7 May 1952
Website	Embassy of India, Tokyo, Japan

The Indian Ambassador to Japan is the chief diplomatic representative of India to Japan.

List of Indian Ambassadors to Japan

The chiefs of the Indian diplomatic mission to Japan are: ^[1]

Head of the Indian Liaison Mission in Tokyo and Political Representative of India with the Supreme Commander Allied Powers in Japan

S. No.	Name	Date charge assumed	Date charge relinquished	Duration in post
1	Benegal Rama Rau	1947	1948	1 year
2	Birendra Narayan Chakraborty	1948	1949	1 year
3	Krishna Krishna Chettur	8 March 1950	28 April 1952	2 years, 1 month and 20 days

Ambassador of India to Japan

S. No.	Name	Date charge assumed	Date charge relinquished	Duration in post
1	Krishna Krishna Chettur	7 May 1952 [2]	August 1952	3 months
2	M. A. Rauf	16 October 1952 [3]	May 1954	1 year, 7 months
3	Binay Ranjan Sen	17 February 1955	September 1956	1 year, 7 months
4	Chandra Shekhar Jha	4 May 1957	7 January 1959 [4]	1 year, 8 months and 3 days
5	Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh	19 February 1959	1 February 1960 [5]	11 months and 13 days
6	Lalji Mehrotra	19 July 1960	21 December 1964	4 years, 5 months and 2 days
7	Badruddin Tyabji	21 March 1965	4 July 1967	2 years, 3 months and 13 days
8	S. K. Banerji	11 November 1967	2 July 1970	2 years, 7 months and 21 days
9	V. H. Coelho	5 July 1970	26 November 1972 [6]	2 years, 4 months and 21 days
10	S. T. Than	27 December 1972	30 June 1975	2 years, 6 months and 3 days
11	Eric Gonsalves	11 September 1975	17 June 1978	2 years, 9 months and 6 days
12	Avtar Singh	25 June 1978	31 October 1979 [7]	1 year, 4 months and 6 days
13	V. K. Ahuja	29 December 1979	8 November 1980	10 months and 10 days
14	K. P. S. Menon Jr.	31 August 1981	19 January 1985	3 years, 4 months and 19 days
15	Anantanarayanan Madhavan	13 April 1985	7 May 1988	3 years and 24 days
16	Arjun G. Asrani	8 June 1988	31 July 1992	4 years, 1 month and 23 days
17	Prakash Shah	28 October 1992	31 January 1995	2 years, 3 months and 3 days
18	Kuldip Sahdev	2 March 1995	31 March 1997	2 years and 29 days
19	Siddharth Singh	4 May 1997	14 September 2000	3 years, 4 months and 10 days
20	Aftab Seth	28 September 2000	30 September 2003	3 years and 2 days
21	Mani Lal Tripathi	16 November 2003	30 April 2006	2 years, 5 months and 14 days
22	Hemant Krishan Singh	1 June 2006	31 December 2010	4 years, 6 months and 30 days
23	Alok Prasad	9 February 2011	30 June 2012	1 year, 4 months and 21 days
24	Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa	8 August 2012	30 November 2015	3 years, 3 months and 22 days
25	Sujan R. Chinoy	3 December 2015	30 November 2018	2 years, 11 months and 27 days
26	Sanjay Kumar Verma	5 May 2019	31 October 2022	3 years, 5 months and 26 days
27	Sibi George	1 November 2022	Incumbent	2 years, 5 months and 1 day

See also

• India–Japan relations

References

1. "Former Ambassadors". Embassy of India, Tokyo. Government of India. 13 September 2024. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
2. "Part I-Section 2" (PDF). The Gazette of India. 7 June 1952. p. 176.
3. "Part I-Section 2" (PDF). The Gazette of India. 13 December 1952. p. 397.
4. "Part I-Section 2" (PDF). The Gazette of India. 7 February 1959. p. 71.
5. "Part I-Section 2" (PDF). The Gazette of India. 12 March 1960. p. 151.
6. "Part I-Section 2" (PDF). The Gazette of India. 6 January 1973. p. 24.
7. "Part I-Section 2" (PDF). The Gazette of India. 2 February 1980. p. 139.