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U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission to Japan

Townsend Harris (Minister 1859) Robert H. Pruyn (Minister 1861) Robert B. Van Valkenburgh (Minister 1866-69) Charles E. De Long (Minister 1869) John Armor Bingham (Minister 1873) Richard B. Hubbard, Jr. (Minister 1885) John F. Swift (Minister 1889-91) Frank L. Coombs (Minister 1892-93) Edwin Dun (Minister 1893-97) Alfred E. Buck (Minister 1897) Lloyd C. Griscom (Minister 1902-06) Luke E. Wright (Ambassador 1906-07) Thomas J. O'Brien (Ambassador 1907-11) Charles P. Bryan (Ambassador 1911-12) Larz Anderson (Ambassador 1912-13) George W. Guthrie (Ambassador 1913-17) Roland S. Morris (Ambassador 1917-20) Charles B. Warren (Ambassador 1921-22) Cyrus E. Woods (Ambassador 1923-24) Edgar A. Bancroft (Ambassador 1924-25) Charles MacVeagh (Ambassador 1925-29) William Richards Castle (Ambassador 1929-30) W. Cameron Forbes (Ambassador 1930-32) Joseph C. Grew (Ambassador 1932-38) Robert D. Murphy (Ambassador 1952) John M. Allison (Ambassador 1953-57) Douglas MacArthur II (Ambassador 1957-61) Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (Ambassador 1961-66) U. Alexis Johnson (Ambassador 1966-69) Armin H. Meyer (Ambassador 1969-72) Robert S. Ingersoll (Ambassador 1972-73) James D. Hodgson (Ambassador 1974-77) Mike Mansfield (Ambassador 1977-88) Michael Armacost (Ambassador 1989) Walter F. Mondale (Ambassador 1993) Thomas S. Foley (Ambassador 1997-2001) Howard H. Baker (Ambassador 2001-05)

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