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British Ambassador
to Japan
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
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 Kōmei
Sir Rutherford Alcock  1859  1865
Sir Harry Parkes  1865  1883 Meiji
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 Edward VII

Ambassadors

Head of mission  Tenure 
begins 		 Tenure 
ends 		 British monarch   Japanese emperor 
Sir Claude MacDonald  1905  1912 Edward VII Meiji
Sir Conyngham Greene   1912  1919 George V Taishō
Sir Charles Eliot  1919  1925
Sir John Tilley  1926  1931 Shōwa
Sir Francis Lindley  1931  1934
Sir Robert Clive  1934  1937
Sir Robert Craigie  1937  1941 George VI

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

During World War II, Setsuya Beppu worked in a consulate in Dublin in the Irish Free State, and was responsilbe for the Japanese citizens in the UK and Ireland.

Political Representative

Ambassadors

Head of mission  Tenure 
begins 		 Tenure 
ends 		 British monarch   Japanese emperor 
Sir Esler Dening      1952  1957 Elizabeth II Shōwa
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 Heisei
(Akihito)
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		 Reiwa
(Naruhito)

See also

Notes

  1. "Senior staff and salary data, September 2019 - GOV.UK". gov.uk. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  2. Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al. (2005). "Elgin, James Bruce, Eighth Duke of" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 174., p. 174, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Archived 24 May 2012 at archive.today.
  3. Nussbaum, "Alcock, Rutherford," pp. 22-23., p. 22, at Google Books
  4. Nussbaum, "Parkes, Harry Smith," p. 174., p. 174, at Google Books
  5. Ian Nish. (2004). British Envoys in Japan 1859-1972, pp. 53-62.
  6. Nish, pp. 63-71.
  7. Nish, pp. 72-77.
  8. Nussbaum, "Satow, Ernest Mason," p. 829., p. 829, at Google Books
  9. "No. 27263". The London Gazette. 4 January 1901. p. 81.
  10. ^ Nish, pp. 94-102.
  11. Nish, pp. 103-113.
  12. Nussbaum, "Eliot, Charles Norton Edgcumbe," p. 174., p. 174, at Google Books
  13. Nish, pp. 123-131.
  14. Nish, pp. 132-139.
  15. Nish, pp. 140-156.
  16. 産経新聞 (6 February 2017). "日本びいきのアイリッシュ 大戦「シンガポール陥落」…首都では日本領事囲み祝賀会（2/2ページ）". 産経新聞：産経ニュース (in Japanese). Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  17. "日愛外交関係樹立50周年記念 （潮田哲，淑子ご夫妻に聞く） 「聞き語り日愛半世紀」 第2回：「太平洋戦争と2人のアイリッシュ」". 在アイルランド日本国大使館 (Embassy of Japan, Dublin) (in Japanese). 23 October 2024.
  18. Hoare, James. (1999). Embassies in the East: the Story of the British Embassies in Japan, China, and Korea from 1859 to the Present, p. 214., p. 214, at Google Books
  19. ^ Nish, pp. 173-178.
  20. Nish, pp. 179-184.
  21. Nish, pp. 185-193.
  22. Nish, pp. 194-201.
  23. Nish, pp. 202-216.
  24. "Hello (again) Japan". British Embassy Tokyo. 3 December 2012. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013.
  25. "Ambassador's Video Message: Paul Madden arrives in Japan". British Embassy Tokyo. 18 January 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  26. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Japan: Julia Longbottom". British Embassy Tokyo. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2021.

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