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French Ambassador to Japan
Incumbent
Laurent Pic
since 2007
Inaugural holderJean Daridan
Formation1961 5th Republic

The List of Ambassadors from 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[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
Charles Arsène-Henry  1937  1941

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  2020
Naruhito

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Jean-Marie Thiébaud. Liste des ambassadeurs, consuls généraux et ministres plénipotentiaires de France au Japon
  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. ^ Journal officiel de la République française (JORF), n°8 du 10 janvier 2006 page texte n° 44
  9. ^ Journal officiel de la République française (JORF), n°275 du 27 novembre 2007 page texte n° 19

References

  • Auslin, Michael R. (2004). Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01521-0; OCLC 56493769
  • Halleck, Henry Wager. (1861). International law: or, Rules regulating the intercourse of states in peace and war New York: D. Van Nostrand. OCLC 852699
  • Medzini, Meron. (1971). French policy in Japan during the closing years of the Tokugawa regime. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674322301; OCLC 161422
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