List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Japan (Redirected from List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Japan)


British Ambassador
to Japan
Incumbent
Julia Longbottom
since March 2021
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Embassy, Tokyo
StyleHer Excellency
Reports toSecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
AppointerKing Charles III
Term lengthAt His Majesty's pleasure
Inaugural holderSir Claude MacDonald
Formation1905
Salary£115,000-£120,000
WebsiteBritish Embassy Tokyo

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Japan is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Japan, and is the head of the UK's diplomatic mission there.

The following is a chronological list of British heads of mission (ministers and ambassadors) in Japan from 1859. Before 1905, there were no ambassadors exchanged between the two countries, the highest rank being envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary – a rank just below ambassador. Before 1859, there was no treaty and no diplomatic relations, because Japan was isolated from the world by the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of national isolation called sakoku (literally locked country).

List of heads of mission

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary

Head of mission  Tenure 
begins
 Tenure 
ends
 British monarch   Japanese emperor 
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin    1858  1858 Queen Victoria
Sir Rutherford Alcock  1859  1865
Sir Harry Parkes  1865  1883
Sir Francis Plunkett  1884  1887
Hugh Fraser  1889  1894
Power Henry Le Poer Trench  1894  1895
Sir Ernest Satow  1895  1900
Sir Claude MacDonald  1900  1905

Ambassadors

Head of mission  Tenure 
begins
 Tenure 
ends
 British monarch   Japanese emperor 
Sir Claude MacDonald  1905  1912
Sir Conyngham Greene   1912  1919 George V
Sir Charles Eliot  1919  1925
Sir John Tilley  1926  1931
Sir Francis Lindley  1931  1934
Sir Robert Clive[citation needed]  1934  1937
Sir Robert Craigie  1937  1941

No representation (1941–1946, due to World War II)

Political Representative

Ambassadors

Head of mission  Tenure 
begins
 Tenure 
ends
 British monarch   Japanese emperor 
Sir Esler Dening      1952  1957 Elizabeth II
Sir Daniel Lascelles  1957  1959
Sir Oscar Morland  1959  1963
Sir Francis Rundall  1963  1967
Sir John Pilcher  1967  1972
Sir Fred Warner  1972  1975
Sir Michael Wilford  1975  1980
Sir Hugh Cortazzi  1980  1984
Sir Sydney Giffard  1984  1986
Sir John Whitehead  1986  1992
Sir John Boyd  1992  1996
Sir David Wright  1996  1999
Sir Stephen Gomersall                   1999  2004
Sir Graham Fry  2004  2008
Sir David Warren  2008  2012
Tim Hitchens  2012  2016
Paul Madden  2017  2021
Julia Longbottom  2021 Elizabeth II
Charles III

See also


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