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.

Quick Facts French Ambassador to Japan, Inaugural holder ...
French Ambassador to Japan
Incumbent
Philippe Setton [ja]
since 2020
Inaugural holderJean Daridan
Formation1961 5th Republic
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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

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Head of mission  Tenure 
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 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
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Ambassadors of the Third Republic

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Head of mission  Tenure 
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 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 [fr] 1937 1943
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Ambassadors of the Fourth Republic

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 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
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Ambassadors of the Fifth Republic

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Head of mission  Tenure 
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 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 [ja]  2020 Naruhito
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