List of Japanese ambassadors in the Czech Republic

The embassy is located at Maltézské náměstí 6, Prague .

Until 2002, the Japanese ambassador in Prague was also regularly accredited in Bratislava .

history

On March 16, 1939, on the occasion of the destruction of the rest of the Czech Republic, Abe Nobuyuki's cabinet revoked the recognition of Rudolf Beran II's government . On December 9, 1941, the Czechoslovak government-in-exile government Jan Šrámek I declared war on the Tōjō cabinet in London . On February 13, 1957, diplomatic relations were resumed.

Appointment / accreditation	ambassador	Japanese writing	Remarks	appointed during the reign of	accredited under the government of	Leave post
Nov 29, 1921	Nagaoka Harukazu	長 岡 春 一		Takahashi Korekiyo	Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Jan. 28, 1925	Yoshiro Kikuchi	芳 郎 菊池	Signed a treaty for the Japanese government with the Czechoslovak government on January 28, 1925.	Kiyoura Keigo
May 30, 1928	Eiichi Kimura	栄 一 木村		Tanaka Giichi
June 18, 1931	Masaaki Hotta	正 明 堀 田		Wakatsuki Reijirō
March 23, 1937	Keinosuke Fujii	藤井 啓 之 助	(* March 1888 in Gunma Prefecture 1959) 1918: Acting Consul General in Sansome Douglas. 1932 to January 9, 1933 Chargé d'affaires in Berlin, 1934: Chargé d'Affaires in London	Hayashi Senjūrō	Edvard Beneš
Oct 30, 1957	Shiroshichi Kimura	木村 四郎 七	(* October 24, 1902) 1966–1968: Ambassador to Seoul	Kishi Nobusuke	Antonín Novotný
Oct 19, 1961	Kijiro Miyake			Ikeda Hayato
23 Sep 1965	Taro Tokunaga	太郎 徳 永		Satō Eisaku
May 14, 1968	Takeo Ozawa	武雄 小 沢			Ludvík Svoboda
Apr 5, 1971	Takeshi Kanematsu	武 兼 松
Nov 21, 1972	Saburo Kimoto	三郎 き も と		Tanaka Kakuei
March 20, 1976	Fumihiko Suzuki	鈴木 文彦		Fukuda Takeo	Gustáv Husák
Apr 9, 1980	Ichiro Yoshioka	イ チ ロ ー 吉岡		Suzuki Zenko
March 14, 1983	Tadashi Otaka	忠 大 高		Nakasone Yasuhiro
March 7, 1987	Haruyuki Mabuchi	治 之 マ ブ チ		Takeshita Noboru
Apr 17, 1989	Chisachi Kato		Accredited by the Czech government from April 1st, 1991.	Kaifu Toshiki	Vaclav Havel
Apr 1, 1993	Kuniaki Asomura	阿 曽 村 邦昭	1991: Ambassador in Hanoi	Hosokawa Morihiro
Oct. 4, 1994	Nobuo Miyamoto	信 夫 宮本		Murayama Tomiichi
Apr 2, 1997	Shunji Maruyama	俊 二 丸山	1964: Attache, Embassy of Japan, New Delhi, 1986 Consul General in Ottawa, 1990 Ambassador in Asución	Hashimoto Ryūtaro
Dec 27, 1999	Hiroto Ishida	裕 人 石田	(* 1941) 1991–1993: Head of the Nuclear Energy Department, 1994–1995: Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan) under Makiko Tanaka	Obuchi Keizo
Feb 3, 2003	Koichi Takahashi	光 一 高橋	1997: Counselor, Permanent Mission, Geneva	Koizumi Jun'ichirō	Václav Klaus
Apr 21, 2005	Hideaki Kumazawa	英明 熊 澤	(* 1953)
Oct 10, 2008	Chikahito Harada	原田 親 仁	(* April 21, 1951) From 2010: Ambassador in Moscow	Asō Tarō
March 1, 2011	Toshio Kunikata	俊 夫 國 方		Noda Yoshihiko
2013	Tetsuo Yamakawa	哲夫 山川

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fumihiko Suzuki
2. ↑ Hiroto Ishida (PDF)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ japan.go.jp, Praha emb