List of Japanese ambassadors in Turkey

List of heads of the Japanese diplomatic mission in Ankara

ambassador

Appointment / accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed during the reign of	accredited during the government of	Leave post
Apr. 1921	Uchida Sadatsuchi	Chargé d'affaires	Takahashi Korekiyo	Fevzi Çakmak
Jan. 1923	Uchida Sadatsuchi	ambassador	Yamamoto Gonnohyōe	Ali Fethi Bey
July 1923	Kasama Akio	Chargé d'affaires	Yamamoto Gonnohyōe
Jan. 1925	Hanaoka Shirō	Envoy	Kiyoura Keigo
March 1925		Embassy building opened	Kiyoura Keigo}
March 1925	Hanaoka Shirō	Chargé d'affaires	Kiyoura Keigo
Nov. 1925	Obata Yūkichi	ambassador	Kiyoura Keigo
Oct. 1928	Ashida Hitoshi	Chargé d'affaires	Tanaka Giichi
Nov 1929	Nihei Hyōji	Envoy	Hamaguchi Osachi
Apr. 1930	Yoshida Isaburō	ambassador	Hamaguchi Osachi
Jan. 1932	Murakami Yoshiatsu	Chargé d'affaires	Saitō Makoto
Dec 1932	Yoshida Isaburō	ambassador	Saitō Makoto
Sep 1933	Mushanokōji Kintomo		Saitō Makoto
March 1935	Tokugawa Iemasa		Okada Keisuke
Feb. 1937	Taketomi Toshihiko		Hayashi Senjūrō	Celâl Bayar
Oct 1940	Kurihara Shō		Yonai Mitsumasa	Refik Saydam
Jan. 31, 1946		Removal of Japanese diplomats	Yoshida Shigeru	Recep Peker
March 16, 1953		Establishment of diplomatic relations	Yoshida Shigeru	Adnan Menderes
May 1953	Kamimura Shin'ichi	ambassador	Yoshida Shigeru
June 1957	Shiroji Yūki		Kishi Nobusuke
Apr. 1959	Takajiro Inoue		Kishi Nobusuke
Dec 1962	Akira Miyazaki		Ikeda Hayato	Ismet Inonu
Jan. 1968	Tanaka Mitsuo		Satō Eisaku	Suad Hayri Ürgüplü
Dec 1970	Suyama Tatsuo		Satō Eisaku
May 1973	Hirose Tatsuo		Tanaka Kakuei	Mehmet Naim Talu
Sep 1976	Nikai Shigeto		Fukuda Takeo	Suleyman Demirel
Feb. 1980	Nishimiya Nobuyasu		Suzuki Zenko	Bulent Ulusu
Nov 1982	Shugihara Shin'ichi		Nakasone Yasuhiro
Aug 1986	Wachi Kazuo		Nakasone Yasuhiro	Turgut Özal
Apr. 1989	Sengoku Takashi		Kaifu Toshiki	Yildirim Akbulut
Nov 1991	Yamaguchi Yōichi		Miyazawa Kiichi	Mesut Yılmaz
March 1994	Togo Takehiro		Murayama Tomiichi	Tansu Çiller
Aug 1996	Tōyama Atsuko		Hashimoto Ryūtaro	Necmettin Erbakan
Oct 1999	Tekenaka Shigeo		Obuchi Keizo	Bülent Ecevit
Aug 2003	Abe Tomoyuki		Koizumi Jun'ichiro	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Nov 2007	Tanaka Nobuaki		Fukuda Yasuo
March 2011	Araki Kiyoshi	(* June 24, 1949)	Kan Naoto

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kiyoshi Araki ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Japonya Ankara Büyükelçiliği Misyon Şefleri ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Uchida is the family name, Sadatsuchi the first name.