List of diplomatic missions of Japan

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This is a list of diplomatic missions of Japan. Japan sent ambassadors to the Tang Chinese court in Xi'an since 607 AD, as well as to the Koryo and Joseon dynasties of early Korea.[1] For centuries, early modern Japan did not actively seek to expand its foreign relations. The first Japanese ambassadors to a Western country travelled to Spain in 1613. Japan did not open an embassy in the United States (in Washington, D.C.) until 1860.

Diplomatic missions of Japan

Honorary consulates are excluded from this listing.

Current missions

Africa

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Algeria Algiers Embassy [2][3]
Angola Luanda Embassy [2][3]
Benin Cotonou Embassy [2][3]
Botswana Gaborone Embassy
International Organizations:
[3][4]
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou Embassy [2][3]
Cameroon Yaoundé Embassy [2][3]
Congo-Kinshasa Kinshasa Embassy
Countries:
[2][3]
Djibouti Djibouti City Embassy [2][3]
Egypt Cairo Embassy
Countries:
[2][3]
Eritrea Asmara Embassy [2][3][5][6]
Ethiopia Addis Ababa Embassy [2][3]
Gabon Libreville Embassy [2][3]
Ghana Accra Embassy
Countries:
[2][3]
Guinea Conakry Embassy [2][3]
Ivory Coast Abidjan Embassy
Countries:
[2][3]
Kenya Nairobi Embassy
Countries:
[2][3][7][8]
Libya Tripoli Embassy [2][3][9]
Madagascar Antananarivo Embassy
Countries:
[2][3]
Malawi Lilongwe Embassy [2][3]
Mali Bamako Embassy [2][3]
Mauritania Nouakchott Embassy [2][3]
Mauritius Port Louis Embassy [2][3]
Morocco Rabat Embassy [2][3]
Mozambique Maputo Embassy [2][3]
Namibia Windhoek Embassy [2][3]
Nigeria Abuja Embassy [2][3]
Rwanda Kigali Embassy
Countries:
[2][3]
Senegal Dakar Embassy [2][3]
Seychelles Victoria Embassy [2][3]
South Africa Pretoria Embassy
Countries:
[2][3]
Cape Town Consular office [2][3]
South Sudan Juba Embassy [2][3]
Tanzania Dar es Salaam Embassy [2][3]
Tunisia Tunis Embassy [2][3]
Uganda Kampala Embassy [2][3]
Zambia Lusaka Embassy [2][3]
Zimbabwe Harare Embassy [2][3]
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Americas

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Argentina Buenos Aires Embassy [2][10]
Barbados Bridgetown Embassy [2][10]
Belize Belmopan Embassy [2][10]
Bolivia La Paz Embassy [2][10]
Santa Cruz de la Sierra Consular office [2][10]
Brazil Brasília Embassy [2][10]
Curitiba Consulate-General [2][10]
Manaus Consulate-General [2][10]
Recife Consulate-General [2][10]
Rio de Janeiro Consulate-General [2][10]
São Paulo Consulate-General [2][10]
Belém Consulate [2][10]
Porto Alegre Consular office [2][10]
Canada Ottawa Embassy [2][11]
Calgary Consulate-General [2][11]
Montreal Consulate-General [2][11]
Toronto Consulate-General [2][11]
Vancouver Consulate-General [2][11]
Chile Santiago de Chile Embassy [2][10]
Colombia Bogotá Embassy [2][10]
Costa Rica San José Embassy [2][10]
Cuba Havana Embassy [2][10]
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo Embassy [2][10]
Ecuador Quito Embassy [2][10]
El Salvador San Salvador Embassy [2][10]
Guatemala Guatemala City Embassy [2][10]
Haiti Port-au-Prince Embassy [12]
Honduras Tegucigalpa Embassy [2][10]
Jamaica Kingston Embassy
Countries:
International Organizations:
[2][10][13]
Mexico Mexico City Embassy [2][10]
León Consulate-General [2][10]
Nicaragua Managua Embassy [2][10]
Panama Panama City Embassy [2][10]
Paraguay Asunción Embassy [2][10]
Encarnación Consular office [2][10]
Peru Lima Embassy [2][10]
Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Embassy
International Organizations:
[2][10][13]
United States Washington, D.C. Embassy
International Organizations:
[2][11][14]
Atlanta (Georgia) Consulate-General [2][11]
Boston (Massachusetts) Consulate-General [2][11]
Chicago (Illinois) Consulate-General [2][11]
Denver (Colorado) Consulate-General [2][11]
Detroit (Michigan) Consulate-General [2][11]
Hagåtña (Guam) Consulate-General [2][11]
Honolulu (Hawaii) Consulate-General [2][11]
Houston (Texas) Consulate-General [2][11]
Los Angeles (California) Consulate-General [2][11]
Miami (Florida) Consulate-General [2][11]
Nashville (Tennessee) Consulate-General [2][11]
New York City (New York) Consulate-General [2][11]
San Francisco (California) Consulate-General [2][11]
Seattle (Washington) Consulate-General [2][11]
Anchorage (Alaska) Consular office [2][11]
Portland (Oregon) Consular office [2][11]
Saipan (Northern Mariana Islands) Consular office [2][11]
Uruguay Montevideo Embassy [2][10]
Venezuela Caracas Embassy [2][10]
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Asia

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Afghanistan Kabul Embassy [2][15][16]
Armenia Yerevan Embassy [2][17]
Azerbaijan Baku Embassy [2][17]
Bahrain Manama Embassy [2][15]
Bangladesh Dhaka Embassy [2][18]
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Embassy [2][18]
Cambodia Phnom Penh Embassy [2][18]
Siem Reap Consular office [18]
China Beijing Embassy [2][18]
Chongqing Consulate-General [2][18]
Guangzhou Consulate-General [2][18]
Hong Kong Consulate-General [2][18]
Qingdao Consulate-General [2][18]
Shanghai Consulate-General [2][18]
Shenyang Consulate-General [2][18]
Dalian Consular office [2][18]
Georgia Tbilisi Embassy [2][17]
India New Delhi Embassy
Countries:
[2][18]
Bengaluru Consulate-General [2][18]
Chennai Consulate-General [2][18]
Kolkata Consulate-General [2][18]
Mumbai Consulate-General [2][18]
Indonesia Jakarta Embassy [2][18]
Denpasar Consulate-General [2][18][19]
Medan Consulate-General [2][18]
Surabaya Consulate-General [2][18]
Makassar Consular office [2][18]
Iran Tehran Embassy [2][15]
Iraq Baghdad Embassy [2][15][20]
Erbil Consular office [2][15]
Israel Tel Aviv Embassy [2][15]
Jordan Amman Embassy [2][15]
Kazakhstan Astana Embassy [2][17]
Kuwait Kuwait City Embassy [2][15]
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Embassy [2][17]
Laos Vientiane Embassy [2][18]
Lebanon Beirut Embassy [2][15]
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Embassy [2][18]
George Town Consulate-General [2][18]
Kota Kinabalu Consular office [2][18]
Maldives Malé Embassy [2][18]
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Embassy [2][18]
Myanmar Yangon Embassy [2][18]
  Nepal Kathmandu Embassy [2][18]
Oman Muscat Embassy [2][15]
Pakistan Islamabad Embassy [2][18]
Karachi Consulate-General [2][18]
Palestine Ramallah Representative office [2][15][21]
Philippines Manila Embassy [2][18]
Cebu City Consulate-General [2][18]
Davao City Consulate-General [2][18]
Qatar Doha Embassy [2][15]
 Republic of China (Taiwan) Taipei Exchange Association office [22]
Kaohsiung Exchange Association office [22]
Saudi Arabia Riyadh Embassy
Countries:
[2][15]
Jeddah Consulate-General [2][15]
Singapore Singapore Embassy [2][18]
South Korea Seoul Embassy [2][18]
Busan Consulate-General [2][18]
Jeju City Consulate-General [2][18]
Sri Lanka Colombo Embassy [2][18]
Syria Damascus Embassy [2][15][23]
Tajikistan Dushanbe Embassy [2][17]
Thailand Bangkok Embassy [2][18]
Chiang Mai Consulate-General [2][18]
Timor-Leste Dili Embassy [2][18]
Turkey Ankara Embassy [2][15]
Istanbul Consulate-General [2][15]
Turkmenistan Ashgabat Embassy [2][17]
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Embassy [2][15]
Dubai Consulate-General [2][15]
Uzbekistan Tashkent Embassy [2][17]
Vietnam Hanoi Embassy [2][18]
Da Nang Consulate-General [2][18]
Ho Chi Minh City Consulate-General [2][18]
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Europe

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Albania Tirana Embassy [2][17]
Austria Vienna Embassy [2][17]
Belarus Minsk Embassy [2][17]
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Embassy [2][17]
Belgium Brussels Embassy [2][17]
Bulgaria Sofia Embassy [2][17]
Croatia Zagreb Embassy [2][17]
Cyprus Nicosia Embassy [2][17]
Czech Republic Prague Embassy [2][17]
Denmark Copenhagen Embassy [2][17]
Estonia Tallinn Embassy [2][17]
Finland Helsinki Embassy [2][17]
France Paris Embassy
Countries:
[2][17]
Marseille Consulate-General [2][17]
Strasbourg Consulate-General [2][17]
Lyon Consular Office [2][17]
Nouméa, New Caledonia Consular Office [2][17]
Germany Berlin Embassy [2][17]
Düsseldorf Consulate-General [2][17]
Frankfurt Consulate-General [2][17]
Hamburg Consulate-General [2][17]
Munich Consulate-General [2][17]
Greece Athens Embassy [2][17]
Holy See Rome[note 1] Embassy [2][17]
Hungary Budapest Embassy [2][17]
Iceland Reykjavík Embassy [2][17]
Ireland Dublin Embassy [2][17]
Italy Rome Embassy
Countries:
[2][17][24][25]
Milan Consulate-General [2][17]
Kosovo Pristina Embassy [2][17]
Latvia Riga Embassy [2][17]
Lithuania Vilnius Embassy [2][17]
Luxembourg Luxembourg City Embassy [2][17]
Malta Sliema Embassy [2][17]
Moldova Chișinău Embassy [2][17]
Netherlands The Hague Embassy [2][17][26]
North Macedonia Skopje Embassy [2][17]
Norway Oslo Embassy [2][17]
Poland Warsaw Embassy [2][17]
Portugal Lisbon Embassy [2][17]
Romania Bucharest Embassy [2][17]
Russia Moscow Embassy [2][17]
Khabarovsk Consulate-General [2][17]
Saint Petersburg Consulate-General [2][17]
Vladivostok Consulate-General [2][17]
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Consulate-General [2][17]
Serbia Belgrade Embassy
Countries:
[2][17][27]
Slovakia Bratislava Embassy [2][17]
Slovenia Ljubljana Embassy [2][17]
Spain Madrid Embassy [2][17]
Barcelona Consulate-General [2][17]
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Consular office [2][17]
Sweden Stockholm Embassy [2][17]
 Switzerland Bern Embassy
Countries:
[2][17]
Geneva Consular office [2][17]
Ukraine Kyiv Embassy [2][17]
United Kingdom London Embassy
International Organizations:
[2][17]
Edinburgh Consulate-General [2][17]
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Oceania

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Australia Canberra Embassy [2][28]
Brisbane Consulate-General [2][28]
Melbourne Consulate-General [2][28]
Perth Consulate-General [2][28]
Sydney Consulate-General [2][28]
Cairns Consular office [2][28]
Fiji Suva Embassy
Countries:
[2][28]
Kiribati Tarawa Embassy [2][28]
Marshall Islands Majuro Embassy [2][28]
Micronesia Kolonia Embassy [2][28]
New Zealand Wellington Embassy
Countries:
[2][28]
Auckland Consulate-General [2][28]
Christchurch Consular office [2][28]
Palau Koror Embassy [2][28]
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby Embassy [2][28]
Samoa Apia Embassy [2][28]
Solomon Islands Honiara Embassy [2][28]
Tonga Nukuʻalofa Embassy [2][28]
Vanuatu Port Vila Embassy [2][28]
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Multilateral organisations

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Embassies to open

Closed missions

Africa

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Central African Republic Bangui Embassy[b] 1992 [3][40]
Liberia Monrovia Embassy[c] 2004[note 2] [41][42]
Nigeria Lagos Embassy branch office[d] 2007 [43][44]
Sudan Khartoum Embassy[e] 2023 [45]
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Americas

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Canada Edmonton Consulate-General 2005 [46]
United States Kansas City Consulate-General 2004 [47]
New Orleans Consulate-General 2008 [48][49]
Tacoma Consulate 1901 [50]
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Asia

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Iran Khorramshahr Consulate-General 1997[note 3] [51]
Kazakhstan Almaty Consular office 2014 [52]
Malaysia Johor Bahru Consular office 2014 [53]
Palestine Gaza City Representative office[f] 2007 [54]
South Vietnam Saigon Embassy[g] 1976 [55]
South Yemen Aden Embassy Unknown [56][57]
Yemen Sana'a Embassy[h] 2015 [58]
Republic of China Tianjin Consulate-General 1946 [59]
Hangzhou Consular office 1945 [60]
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Europe

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Germany Bonn Embassy branch office[i] 2002 [61]
Italian Social Republic Venice Embassy[j] 1945 or sooner [62]
Lithuania[note 4] Kaunas Consulate[k] 1940 [63]
Poland Rzeszów Embassy liaison office[l] 2023 [64]
Russia Nakhodka Consulate-General 1993 [65]
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Oceania

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Australia Townsville Consulate 1908 [66]
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See also

Notes

  1. The Japanese Embassy to the Holy See is located outside Vatican territory in Rome.
  2. Temporarily closed in 1990 due to the outbreak of the First Liberian Civil War, was officially declared closed in 2004.
  3. Temporarily closed in 1981 due to the outbreak of the Iran–Iraq War, was officially declared closed in 1997.
  4. The Baltic states, were occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1941, prompting the closure of missions accredited to Lithuania. From 1941 to 1945, the Baltic states were occupied by Nazi Germany, before finally being re-annexed by the Soviet Union after the Second World War.
  1. Accredited as an observer mission.
  2. Resident in Yaonde, Centre, Cameroon
  3. Resident in Accra, Ghana
  4. Continues as an embassy in Abuja.
  5. Resident in Cairo, Egypt
  6. Continues as a representative office in Ramallah.
  7. Continues as a consulate-general nowadays.
  8. Resident in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  9. Continues as an embassy in Berlin nowadays.
  10. Relocated to Rome, Lazio, Italy
  11. Continues as an embassy in Vilnius nowadays.
  12. Continues as an embassy in Warsaw nowadays.

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