List of ambassadors of the United States to Japan

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Ambassador of the United States to Japan
日本駐在米合衆国大使
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since April 18, 2025
Department of State
Style Mr. Ambassador
(informal)
The Honorable
(formal)
NominatorThe president of the United States
AppointerThe president
with Senate advice and consent
FormationNovember 5, 1859
Website U.S. Embassy – Japan

The ambassador of the United States of America to Japan (Japanese: 駐日本国アメリカ合衆国大使, Hepburn: Chū Nihonkoku Amerika Gasshūkoku Taishi) is the ambassador from the United States of America to Japan.

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History

Beginning in 1854 with the use of gunboat diplomacy by Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the U.S. has maintained diplomatic relations with Japan, except for the ten-year period between the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (and the subsequent declaration of war on Japan by the United States) and the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco, which normalized relations between the United States and Japan. The United States maintains an embassy in Tokyo, with consulates-general in Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, and Naha.

Due to the significance of the relations between the two countries in recent years on trade and defense, with Japan being described by the United States State Department as "the cornerstone of the U.S. security interests in Asia," [1] the post has been held by many significant American politicians, including Mike Mansfield, Walter Mondale, Tom Foley and Howard Baker and Rahm Emanuel.

List of chiefs of mission

The following is a list of chiefs of mission.

Resident ministers

NamePresented credentialsReason for end of termDate of end of term
Townsend Harris November 5, 1859presented recallApril 26, 1862
Robert H. Pruyn May 17, 1862Left JapanApril 28, 1866
Chauncey Depew*N/A*(commissioned during a Senate recess; declined appointment)N/A
Robert B. Van Valkenburgh May 4, 1867presented recallNovember 11, 1869
Charles E. DeLong November 11, 1869promoted to envoyJune 9, 1872

Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary

NamePresented credentialsReason for end of termDate of end of term
Charles E. DeLong June 9, 1872Farewell addressOctober 7, 1873
John Bingham October 7, 1873Presented recallJuly 2, 1885
Richard B. Hubbard July 2, 1885May 15, 1889
John Franklin Swift May 15, 1889Died in officeMarch 10, 1891
Frank Coombs June 13, 1892Presented recallJuly 14, 1893
Edwin Dun July 14, 1893July 2, 1897
Alfred Buck June 3, 1898Died in officeDecember 4, 1902
Lloyd Carpenter Griscom June 22, 1903Left JapanNovember 19, 1905

Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary

NamePresented credentialsReason for end of termDate of end of term
Luke E. Wright May 26, 1906Left JapanAugust 13, 1907
Thomas J. O'Brien October 15, 1907Left officeAugust 31, 1911
Charles Page Bryan November 22, 1911October 1, 1912
Larz Anderson February 1, 1913Left JapanMarch 15, 1913
George W. Guthrie August 7, 1913Died in officeMarch 8, 1917
Roland S. Morris October 30, 1917Left JapanMay 15, 1920
Charles B. Warren September 24, 1921January 28, 1923
Cyrus Woods July 21, 1923June 5, 1924
Edgar Bancroft November 19, 1924Died in officeJuly 27, 1925
Charles MacVeagh December 9, 1925Left JapanDecember 6, 1928
William Castle, Jr. January 24, 1930May 27, 1930
W. Cameron Forbes September 15, 1930March 22, 1932
Joseph Grew June 14, 1932Left Japan upon US declaration of warDecember 8, 1941
vacant19411946
George Atcheson Jr.**1946(**Political advisor to SCAP of ambassadorial rank.) [2] 1946
William J. Sebald***1947(***Chief, Diplomatic Section, GHQ, SCAP - of ambassadorial rank) [2] 1952
Robert D. Murphy May 9, 1952Relinquished chargeApril 28, 1953
John M. Allison May 28, 1953Left officeFebruary 2, 1957
Douglas MacArthur II February 25, 1957March 12, 1961
Edwin Reischauer April 27, 1961August 19, 1966
U. Alexis Johnson November 8, 1966January 15, 1969
Armin H. Meyer July 3, 1969March 27, 1972
Robert S. Ingersoll April 12, 1972November 8, 1973
James Day Hodgson July 19, 1974February 2, 1977
Mike Mansfield June 10, 1977December 22, 1988
Michael Armacost May 15, 1989July 19, 1993
Walter Mondale September 21, 1993December 15, 1996
Tom Foley November 19, 1997April 1, 2001
Howard Baker July 5, 2001Farewell addressFebruary 17, 2005
Tom Schieffer April 11, 2005Left officeJanuary 20, 2009
John Roos August 20, 2009August 12, 2013
Caroline Kennedy November 12, 2013January 18, 2017
Bill Hagerty August 31, 2017July 22, 2019
vacant20192022
Rahm Emanuel [3] [4] March 25, 2022January 15, 2025
George Glass April 18, 2025Incumbent

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "U.S. Relations With Japan". U.S. Department of State. U.S. Department of State, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Japan Biographical Encyclopedia. The Rengo Press, LTD. 1958. ASIN   B0015LKCV0.
  3. ↑ "Rahm Emanuel Confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Next U.S. Ambassador to Japan". United States government. U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Japan. December 22, 2021. Archived from the original on January 2, 2022. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  4. ↑ Spero, Domani (January 4, 2022). "Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Sworn-in as U.S. Ambassador to Japan". Diplopundit. Retrieved February 12, 2022.

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