List of dignitaries at the state funeral of Hirohito

Imperial House

The late Emperor's descendants:

• The Emperor and Empress, the late Emperor's son and daughter-in-law^[1][2]
  • The Crown Prince, the late Emperor's grandson
  • The Prince Aya, the late Emperor's grandson
  • The Princess Nori, the late Emperor's granddaughter
• The Former Princess Yori and Takamasa Ikeda, the late Emperor's daughter and son-in-law
• The Prince and Princess Hitachi, the late Emperor's son and daughter-in-law
• The Former Princess Suga and Hisanaga Shimazu, the late Emperor's daughter and son-in-law

Other descendants of Emperor Taishō:

• The Princess Takamatsu, the late Emperor's sister-in-law
• The Prince and Princess Mikasa, the late Emperor's brother and sister-in-law
  • Former Princess Yasuko of Mikasa and Tadateru Konoe, the late Emperor's niece and nephew-in-law
  • Prince and Princess Tomohito of Mikasa, the late Emperor's nephew and niece-in-law
  • Former Princess Masako of Mikasa and Masayuki Sen, the late Emperor's niece and nephew-in-law
  • The Prince and Princess Takamado, the late Emperor's nephew and niece-in-law

Imperial Household

Politicians

• Noboru Takeshita, Prime Minister of Japan^[3]
• Keizō Obuchi, Chief Cabinet Secretary^[4]
• Kenzaburo Hara, Speaker of the House of Representatives
• Yoshihiko Tsuchiya [ja], President of the House of Councillors
• Koichi Yaguchi, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
• Hitoshi Motoshima, Mayor of Nagasaki^[5]

Royalty

Heads of state and government

• Hussain Muhammad Ershad, President of Bangladesh^[6]
• José Sarney, President of Brazil, and First Lady Marly Sarney^[6][7]
• Pierre Buyoya, President of Burundi^[6]
• George Vassiliou, President of Cyprus^[6]
• Barkat Gourad Hamadou, Prime Minister of Djibouti^[6]
• Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt^[6]
• Fikre Selassie Wogderess, Prime Minister of Ethiopia^[6]
• Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, President of Fiji, and Lady Bale Ganilau^[6][7]
• Mauno Koivisto, President of Finland, and First Lady Tellervo Koivisto^[6][7]
• François Mitterrand, President of France^[6]
• Sir Dawda Jawara, President of The Gambia^[6]
• Richard von Weizsäcker, President of West Germany^[6]
• Jerry Rawlings, Chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council of Ghana^[6]
• Christos Sartzetakis, President of Greece, and First Lady Efrosyni Argyriou^[6][7]
• João Bernardo Vieira, President of the Council of State of Guinea-Bissau, and First Lady Isabel Romana Vieira^[6][7]
• José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras, and First Lady Miriam Bocock^[6][7]
• Brunó Ferenc Straub, President of the Presidential Council of Hungary^[6]
• Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland^[6]
• Ramaswamy Venkataraman, President of India, and First Lady Janaki Venkataraman^[6][7]
• Suharto, President of Indonesia, and First Lady Siti Hartinah^[6][7]
• Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland^[6]
• Chaim Herzog, President of Israel^[6]
• Francesco Cossiga, President of Italy^[6]
• Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya^[6]
• Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives^[6]
• John Haglelgam, President of Micronesia, and First Lady Paula Ori^[6][7]
• Hammer DeRoburt, President of Nauru^[6]
• Mamane Oumarou, Prime Minister of Niger^[6]
• Ibrahim Babangida, President of Nigeria^[6]
• Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, and Asif Ali Zardari^[6][7]
• Manuel Solís Palma, Acting President of Panama^[6]
• Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines^[6]
• Mário Soares, President of Portugal^[6]
• Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore, and Kwa Geok Choo^[6][7]
• Chatichai Choonhavan, Prime Minister of Thailand^[7]
• Gnassingbé Eyadéma, President of Togo^[6]
• Hédi Baccouche, Prime Minister of Tunisia^[6]
• Turgut Özal, Prime Minister of Turkey, and Semra Özal^[6][7]
• Samson Kisekka, Prime Minister of Uganda^[6]
• George H. W. Bush, President of the United States, and First Lady Barbara Bush^[6][7]
• Fred Timakata, President of Vanuatu^[6]
• Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire, and First Lady Bobi Ladawa Mobutu^[6][7]
• Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia^[6]

Deputies

Foreign ministers

• Afonso Van-Dúnem, Minister of External Relations of Angola (representing the President of Angola)^[6]
• Alois Mock, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria (representing the President of Austria)^[6]
• Leo Tindemans, Minister of External Relations of Belgium^[7]
• Guy Landry Hazoume, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Benin^[7]
• Dawa Tsering, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bhutan^[7]
• Gaositwe Chiepe, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Botswana (representing the President of Botswana)^[6]
• Abreu Sodré, Minister of External Relations of Brazil^[7]
• Domba Jean-Marc Palm, Minister of External Relations of Burkina Faso^[6]
• Silvino Manuel da Luz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cape Verde (representing the President of Cape Verde)^[6]
• Michel Gbezera Bria, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic (representing the President of the Central African Republic)^[6]
• Hernán Felipe Errázuriz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile (representing the President of Chile)^[6]
• Qian Qichen, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (representing the President of the People's Republic of China)^[6]
• Said Kafe, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Comoros^[7]
• Antoine Ndinga Oba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of the Congo (representing the President of the People's Republic of the Congo)^[6]
• Rodrigo Madrigal Nieto, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica (representing the President of Costa Rica)^[6]
• Ricardo Acevedo Peralta, Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador (representing the President of El Salvador)^[6]
• Roland Dumas, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France^[7]
• Omar Sey, Minister of External Affairs of The Gambia^[7]
• Jean Traoré, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea (representing the President of Guinea)^[6]
• Carlos López Contreras, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Honduras^[7]
• P. V. Narasimha Rao, Minister of External Affairs of India^[7]
• Robert Ouko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kenya^[7]
• Saud Al-Osaimi [ar], Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Kuwait (representing the Emir of Kuwait)^[6]
• Jean Bemananjara, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Madagascar (representing the President of Madagascar)^[6]
• Abu Hassan Omar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia^[7]
• Fathulla Jameel, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Maldives^[7]
• Ċensu Tabone, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta^[7]
• Tom Kijiner, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Marshall Islands (representing the President of the Marshall Islands)^[6]
• Mohamed Sidina Ould Sidiya, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mauritania (representing the President of Mauritania)^[6]
• Abdellatif Filali, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Morocco^[7]
• Hans van den Broek, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands^[7]
• Russell Marshall, Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand^[7]
• Ike Nwachukwu, Minister of External Affairs of Nigeria^[7]
• Thorvald Stoltenberg, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway^[7]
• Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan^[7]
• Jorge Eduardo Ritter, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama^[7]
• Luis María Argaña, Minister of External Affairs of Paraguay (representing the President of Paraguay)^[6]
• Raul Manglapus, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines^[7]
• Ibrahima Fall, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Senegal (representing the President of Senegal)^[6]
• Abdul Karim Koroma, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sierra Leone (representing the President of Sierra Leone)^[6]
• René Felber, head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland^[6]
• Sir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom^[7]
• James Baker, United States Secretary of State^[7]
• Luis Barrios Tassano, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay (representing the President of Uruguay)^[6]
• Enrique Tejera París [es], Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela (representing the President of Venezuela)^[6]

Diplomats

This section only includes diplomats who headed the delegations of their respective countries.

• Justin Papajorgji, Ambassador of Albania to Japan^[6]
• Atlay Morales, Belizean Ambassador to Mexico^[6]
• Issa Abbas Ali, Ambassador of Chad to Japan^[6]
• Cándido Oyono Ela Eyang, Chargé d'affaires of Equatorial Guinea to Japan^[6]
• Samir Khoury, Ambassador of Lebanon to Japan^[6]
• Taher Ali Marwan, Chargé d'affaires of Libya to Japan^[6]
• Manlio Cadelo, Honorary Consul-General of San Marino in Tokyo^[6]
• Alexander Waldemar Kuhn, Consul-General of South Africa in Tokyo^[6]
• Cyrill Ramkisor, Surinamese Ambassador to the Netherlands^[6]
• Chang Pao-shu, Chairman of the Association of East Asian Relations of Taiwan^[6]
• Premchand J. Dass, Trinidadian High Commissioner to India^[6]
• Mohamed Abdul Koddos Alwazir, Ambassador of North Yemen to Japan^[6]

Other representatives

• Rabah Bitat, Speaker of the National People's Assembly of Algeria (representing the President of Algeria)^[6]
• Romain Vilon Guézo, President of the Permanent Committee of the National Revolutionary Assembly of Benin (representing the President of Benin)^[6]
• Seigo Tsuzuki, Minister of Health of Brazil^[7]
• Bukarii Mahamadu Gabriel of Burkina Faso (representing the President of Burkina Faso)^[7]
• U Pe Thein, Minister for Health and Education of Burma (representing the Chairman of the State Law and Order Restoration Council of Burma)^[6]
  • U Tha Tun, Attorney-General of Burma^[7]
• Lawrence Fonka Shang, President of the National Assembly of Cameroon (representing the President of Cameroon)^[6]
• John Crosbie, Minister of International Trade of Canada^[7]
• Carolina Isakson Proctor, First Lady of Colombia (representing the President of Colombia)^[6]
• Salim Ben Ali, former Prime Minister of the Comoros and President of Grande Comore (representing the President of the Comoros)^[6]
• Fernando Naranjo, Minister of Finance and Public Treasury of Costa Rica^[7]
• Arnaldo Torriente Gutiérrez, member of the National Assembly of People's Power (parliament) of Cuba^[7]
• Takis Nemitsas, Minister of Commerce and Industry of Cyprus^[7]
• Palle Simonsen, Minister of Finance of Denmark^[7]
• Gil Barragán, President of the Supreme Court of Ecuador (representing the President of Ecuador)^[6]
• Ali Bongo, son and personal representative of President Omar Bongo of Gabon^[7]
• Tsatsu Tsikata, Minister of State of Ghana^[7]
• Claudia Arenas Bianchi, Secretary of Public Relations of the Presidency of Guatemala (representing the President of Guatemala)^[6]
• Manuel dos Santos, Minister of Trade and Tourism of Guinea-Bissau^[7]
• Antony Virginie Saint-Pierre, Minister of Information and Coordination of Haiti (representing the President of Haiti)^[6]
• Cardinal Silvio Oddi of the Holy See (representing the Pope)^[6]
• Gábor Nagy, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary^[7]
• Mostafa Mir-Salim, top advisor to President Ali Khamenei of Iran^[6]
  • Hossein Saffar Harandi, member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (parliament) and chairman of the Agriculture Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran^[7]
• Camille Alliali, Minister of State of Ivory Coast (representing the President of Ivory Coast)^[6]
• Robert Goebbels, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg^[7]
• Maxwell Pashane, Minister without Portfolio of Malawi (representing the President of Malawi)^[6]
• Oumar Ba, Minister of Justice of Mali (representing the President of Mali)^[6]
• Madan Dulloo, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Resources of Mauritius^[6]
• Cecilia Occelli, First Lady of Mexico (representing the President of Mexico)^[6]
• Lodongiyn Rinchin, Chairman of the People's Great Khural of Mongolia (representing the Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural of Mongolia)^[6]
• Jacinto Veloso, Minister of Cooperation of Mozambique (representing the President of Mozambique)^[6]
• William Hüpper Argüello, Minister of Finance of Nicaragua (representing the President of Nicaragua)^[6]
• Nabil Shaath, political adviser for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat^[6]
• Felipe Valdivieso Belaúnde, Vice Minister and Secretary General at the Ministry of External Relations of Peru (representing the President of Peru)^[6]
• Jean-Marie Mugemana, Minister of the Interior and Community Development of Rwanda (representing the President of Rwanda)^[6]
• Allan C. Cruickshank, Minister of Communications and Works of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines^{[note 1][6][7]}
• Alberto Ferreira Chong, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of São Tomé and Príncipe (representing the President of São Tomé and Príncipe)^[6]
• Jacques Hodoul, Minister of National Development of Seychelles (representing the President of Seychelles)^[6]
• Mohamed Sheikh Osman, Minister of the Presidency for Economic Affairs of Somalia (representing the President of Somalia)^[6]
• Virgilio Zapatero, Minister of Relations with the Cortes and Government Secretariat of Spain^[7]
• J. R. Jayewardene, former President of Sri Lanka (representing the President of Sri Lanka)^[6]
• Anglo B. Beda, Chairman of the Southern Sudan Council of Sudan^[7]
• Reginald Dhladhla, Minister of Justice of Swaziland^[7]
• Kjell-Olof Feldt, Minister of Finance of Sweden^[7]
• Barry Moussa Barque, Minister of Planning and Mines of Togo^[7]
• Baron Vaea, Minister of Labour, Commerce and Industries of Tonga^{[note 2][7]}
• Enele Sopoaga, Assistant Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Tuvalu^[7]
• Patu Afaese, Minister of Education of Western Samoa^[7]
• Saleh Abdullah Muthanna, Minister of Transport and Communications of South Yemen (representing the Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme People's Council of South Yemen)^[6]
• Panji Kaunda, son of President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia^[7]