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The Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. (在アメリカ合衆国日本国大使館, Zai Amerika Gasshūkoku Nihonkoku Taishikan) is the diplomatic mission of Japan to the United States. It is located at 2520 Massachusetts Avenue NW , Washington, D.C., in the Embassy Row neighborhood. [ 1 ]
Kanrin Maru (circa 1860) The three plenipotentiary members of the Japanese embassy: Muragaki Norimasa, Shinmi Masaoki, and Oguri Tadamasa.. On February 9 (January 19 in the Japanese calendar), 1860, the Kanrin Maru set sail from Uraga for San Francisco under the leadership of Captain Katsu Kaishū, with Nakahama "John" Manjiro as the official translator, carrying 96 Japanese men and an ...
The former building of the embassy. The current location for the embassy has a total of seven stories. The building began construction in September 2006, [2] and was officially completed in August 2011. [3] The building has been used as an embassy since March 2012. The former location of the embassy officially closed down in late February 2012. [4]
For centuries, early modern Japan did not actively seek to expand its foreign relations. The first Japanese ambassadors to a Western country travelled to Spain in 1613. Japan did not open an embassy in the United States (in Washington, D.C.) until 1860. Honorary consulates are excluded from this listing.
The Consulate-General of Japan in Houston (在ヒューストン日本国総領事館, Zai Hyūsuton Nippon-koku Sōryōjikan) is Japan's diplomatic facility in Houston, Texas, United States. It is located in Suite 3000 at 2 Houston Center, which is located at 900 Fannin Street in Downtown Houston. The consulate serves Texas and Oklahoma. [1]
Map of diplomatic missions in Japan. This is a list of diplomatic missions in Japan. At present, the capital city of Tokyo hosts 154 embassies. A few other countries are accredited through their embassies in Beijing or elsewhere. This listing excludes honorary consulates.
Japanese Embassy to the United States (up until 1860) Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. United States Ambassador to Japan; Japan–United States relations. Convention of Kanagawa; Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States–Japan) Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan; Treaty of San Francisco
Beginning in 1854 with the use of gunboat diplomacy by Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the U.S. has maintained diplomatic relations with Japan, except for the ten-year period between the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (and the subsequent declaration of war on Japan by the United States) and the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco, which normalized relations between the United States and Japan.