List of ambassadors of France to Japan
| French Ambassador to Japan | |
|---|---|
Incumbent 5th Republic |
The list of ambassadors of France to Japan began developing in the same year that the American Commodore Perry
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 | Henri Pétain
| |
Charles Arsène-Henry ] |
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 ]
|
2020 | Naruhito |
See also
Notes
- ^ Jean-Marie Thiébaud. Liste des ambassadeurs, consuls généraux et ministres plénipotentiaires de France au Japon Archived 13 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Medzini, Meron. (1971). French Policy in Japan, pp. 20-48., p. 20, at Google Books
- ^ Medzini, pp. 71-90., p. 71, at Google Books
- ^ Envoyé extraordinaire et ministre plénipotentiaire
- ^ Head of the French mission and SCAP liaison (Chef de la mission française de liaison auprès du commandant supérieur allié en Extrême-Orient)
- ^ Chief of the French mission and SCAP liaison prior to 5 May 1952; then ambassador
- ^ Französische Botschaft in Deutschland, Lebenslauf Botschafter Bernard de Montferrand Archived 25 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
References
- 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
- The initial draft of this article was developed using material found at Ambassade de France au Japon in the French Wikipedia.
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