List of Japanese ambassadors in Afghanistan

The following list brings together the Japanese ambassadors in Afghanistan

Appointed / Accredited	Surname	Remarks	appointed during the reign of	accredited during government	Leave post
1967	Hidiki Masaki	one of eight translators during Tōjō Hideki's testimony at one of the Tokyo trials .	Sato Eisaku	Mohammed Sahir Shah
1968	Sashichiro Matsui		Sato Eisaku
1971	Kenji Nakao	1973 Ambassador to Addis Ababa	Sato Eisaku
Oct 16, 1973	Junji Yamada		Tanaka Kakuei
1978	Toshikazu Maeda	(* May 1950) from 1979 ambassador to Seoul	Ohira Masayoshi	Just Muhammad Taraki	March 14, 1979

Individual notes

1. ↑ Junji Yamada (* 1919) 1981 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Berlin , British Broadcasting Corporation , Summary of world broadcasts : Far East, Part 3, Monitoring Service, 1973
2. ↑ Ludwig W. Adamec : First supplement to the Who's who of Afghanistan: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Volume 1, p. 21