Ambassador's Message
2018/11/1
Welcome to the website of the Embassy of Japan in Sri Lanka!
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Japanese Ambassadors and Heads of Mission to Sri Lanka 1952~
Name | Period/Year | |
1 | Tetsuo Ban (Head of Mission) | Jan 1952 ~Aug 1953 |
2 | Shirohichi Kimura (Head of Mission) | Jan 1954~Feb 1955 |
3 | Shirouji Yuuki | Apr 1955~Jun 1957 |
4 | Akira Matsui | Jul 1957~Sep 1959 |
5 | Yasusuke Katsuno | Feb 1960~Jul 1962 |
6 | Jiro Takase | Sep 1962~Mar 1966 |
7 | Seizo Hinata | Mar 1966~Aug 1968 |
8 | Yoshio Yamamoto | Sep 1968~Jul 1971 |
9 | Sahichiro Matsui | Jul 1971~Dec 1973 |
10 | Akira Yoshioka | Jun 1974~Mar 1977 |
11 | Keisuke Ochi | May 1977~Jul 1980 |
12 | Kazuo Chiba | Sep 1980~Jan 1983 |
13 | Hiroshi Ohtaka | Mar 1983~Mar 1987 |
14 | Yasuya Hamamoto | Mar 1987~Jun 1989 |
15 | Isamu Nitta | Aug 1989~Jun 1992 |
16 | Masaki Kuniyasu | Jul 1992~Oct 1994 |
17 | Yasuo Noguchi | Oct 1994~May 1997 |
18 | Yoji Sugiyama | May 1997~Jun 2000 |
19 | Seiichiro Otsuka | Aug 2000~Oct 2003 |
20 | Akio Suda | Nov 2003~Jul 2006 |
21 | Kiyoshi Araki | Aug 2006~Mar 2009 |
22 | Kunio Takahashi | Mar 2009~Oct 2011 |
23 | Nobuhito Hobo | Oct 2011~June 2015 |
24 | Kenichi Suganuma | June 2015~Oct 2018 |
25 | Akira Sugiyama | Oct 2018~ |