List of ambassadors of France to Japan
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The list of ambassadors of France to Japan began developing in the same year that the American Commodore Perry "opened" Japan's doors to the West.
Inaugural holderJean Daridan
Formation1961 5th Republic
| French Ambassador to Japan | |
|---|---|
since 2020 | |
| Inaugural holder | Jean Daridan |
| Formation | 1961 5th Republic |
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 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 |