The Indian Ambassador to Japan is the chief diplomatic representative of India to Japan.

List of Indian Ambassadors to Japan The chiefs of the Indian diplomatic mission to Japan are:

Head of the Indian Liaison Mission in Tokyo and Political Representative of India with the Supreme Commander Allied Powers in Japan S. No.NameDate charge assumedDate charge relinquishedDuration in post1Benegal Rama Rau194719481 year2Birendra Narayan Chakraborty194819491 year3Krishna Krishna Chettur8 March 195028 April 1952

Ambassador of India to Japan S. No.NameDate charge assumedDate charge relinquishedDuration in post1Krishna Krishna Chettur7 May 1952 August 19523 months2M. A. Rauf16 October 1952 May 19541 year, 7 months3Binay Ranjan Sen17 February 1955September 19561 year, 7 months4Chandra Shekhar Jha4 May 19577 January 1959 5Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh19 February 19591 February 19606Lalji Mehrotra19 July 196021 December 19647Badruddin Tyabji21 March 19654 July 19678S. K. Banerji11 November 19672 July 19709V. H. Coelho5 July 197026 November 1972 10S. T. Than27 December 197230 June 197511Eric Gonsalves11 September 197517 June 197812Avtar Singh25 June 197831 October 197913V. K. Ahuja29 December 19798 November 198014K. P. S. Menon Jr.31 August 198119 January 198515Anantanarayanan Madhavan13 April 19857 May 198816Arjun G. Asrani8 June 198831 July 199217Prakash Shah28 October 199231 January 199518Kuldip Sahdev2 March 199531 March 199719Siddharth Singh4 May 199714 September 200020Aftab Seth28 September 200030 September 200321Mani Lal Tripathi16 November 200330 April 200622Hemant Krishan Singh1 June 200631 December 201023Alok Prasad9 February 201130 June 201224Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa8 August 201230 November 201525Sujan R. Chinoy3 December 201530 November 201826Sanjay Kumar Verma5 May 201931 October 202227Sibi George1 November 20229 September 2025

See also India–Japan relations

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