| Ambassador of India to Japan | |
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| 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.
The chiefs of the Indian diplomatic mission to Japan are: [1]
| 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 |
| 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 | 1 year, 11 months and 11 days |
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