List of ambassadors of France to Japan

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.

French Ambassador to Japan
Incumbent
Philippe Setton
since 2020
Inaugural holderJean Daridan
Formation1961 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 1858Napoleon IIIKōmei
Charles de Chassiron     1858 1859
Gustave Duchesne de Bellecourt[2]         1859 1863
Léon Roches[3] 1863 1868
Maxime Outrey 1868 1871Meiji

Ambassadors of the Third Republic
Head of mission  Tenure 
begins		  Tenure 
ends		  French Head of State   Japanese emperor 
Paul Louis de Turenne 1871 1872Adolphe ThiersMeiji

 1872 1890Patrice Mac-Mahon
Jules Grévy
Joseph Adam Sienkiewicz                     1890 1892Sadi Carnot
Jules Harmand[4] 1894 1905Jean Casimir-Perier
Félix Faure
Émile Loubet
Gaston Raindre 1905 1909Armand Fallières
Auguste Gérard 1909 1914Taishō
Eugène Regnault 1914 1918Raymond Poincaré
Roger Maugras (chargé d'affaires) 1918 1919
Edmond Bapst 1919 1921Paul Deschanel
Alexandre Millerand
Gaston Doumergue
Paul Doumer
Paul Claudel 1921 1927
Robert de Billy 1927 1929Shōwa
Alfred de Martel 1929 1933
Fernand Pila 1935 1936Albert 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 1950Vincent AuriolShōwa
Maurice Dejean[6] 1950 1953
Daniel Lévi 1953 1956
Armand Bérard 1956 1959René Coty

Ambassadors of the Fifth Republic
Head of mission  Tenure 
begins		  Tenure 
ends		  French Head of State   Japanese emperor 
Jean Daridan 1959 1961Charles de GaulleShōwa
Étienne Dennery 1961 1964
François Missoffe 1964 1966
Louis de Guiringaud 1966 1972Georges Pompidou
François Lefebvre de Laboulaye 1972 1975Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Jean-Pierre Brunet 1975 1977
Louis Dauge 1977 1979
Xavier Daufresne de la Chevalerie 1979 1982François Mitterrand
André Ross 1982 1985
Gilbert Pérol 1985 1987
Bernard Dorin 1987 1991Akihito
Loïc Hennekinne 1991 1993
Jean-Bernard Ouvrieu 1993 1998Jacques Chirac
Maurice Gourdault-Montagne 1998 2002
Bernard Faubournet de Montferrand[7]      2002 2006
Gildas Le Lidec[8] 2006 2007
Philippe Faure[9] 2007 2011Nicolas Sarkozy
Christian Masset 2011 2014Francois Hollande
Thierry Dana 2014 2017
Laurent Pic 2017 2020Emmanuel 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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