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{| class="wikitable sortable floatright" style="width:360px; border:1px black; float:right; margin-left:1em;"
|+ style="background:#f99;" colspan="2"|Results of 2017 [[BBC World Service]] poll<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.globescan.com/images/images/pressreleases/bbc2017_country_ratings/BBC2017_Country_Ratings_Poll.pdf |title=2017 BBC World Service poll|archive-date=30 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730112140/http://www.globescan.com/images/images/pressreleases/bbc2017_country_ratings/BBC2017_Country_Ratings_Poll.pdf |page=20 }}</ref><br />Views of Japan's influence by country<br />(sorted by pos − neg)
!Country polled !!<small> Positive</small> !! <small>Negative</small> !! <small>Neutral</small> !! <small>Pos − Neg</small>
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| {{flagcountry|People's Republic of China}}|| {{Percentage bar|22|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|75|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 3 || <span style="color:red;">-53</span>
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| {{flagcountry|Spain}}|| {{Percentage bar|39|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|36|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 25 || <span style="color:green;">3</span>
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| {{flagcountry|Turkey}}|| {{Percentage bar|50|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|32|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 18 || <span style="color:green;">18</span>
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| {{flagcountry|Pakistan}}|| {{Percentage bar|38|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|20|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 42 || <span style="color:green;">18</span>
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| {{flagcountry|India}}|| {{Percentage bar|45|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|17|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 38 || <span style="color:green;">28</span>
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| {{flagcountry|Russia}}|| {{Percentage bar|45|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|16|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 39 || <span style="color:green;">29</span>
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| {{flagcountry|Peru}}|| {{Percentage bar|56|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|25|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 19 || <span style="color:green;">31</span>
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| {{flagcountry|Nigeria}}|| {{Percentage bar|57|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|24|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 19 || <span style="color:green;">33</span>
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| {{flagcountry|UK}}|| {{Percentage bar|65|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|30|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 5 || <span style="color:green;">35</span>
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| {{flagcountry|Mexico}}|| {{Percentage bar|59|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|23|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 18 || <span style="color:green;">36</span>
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| {{flagcountry|Kenya}}|| {{Percentage bar|58|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|22|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 20 || <span style="color:green;">36</span>
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| {{flagcountry|Germany}}|| {{Percentage bar|50|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|13|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 37 || <span style="color:green;">37</span>
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| {{flagcountry|Indonesia}}|| {{Percentage bar|57|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|17|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 26 || <span style="color:green;">40</span>
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| {{flagcountry|United States}}|| {{Percentage bar|65|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|23|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 12 || <span style="color:green;">42</span>
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| {{flagcountry|France}}|| {{Percentage bar|74|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|21|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 5 || <span style="color:green;">53</span>
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| {{flagcountry|Brazil}}|| {{Percentage bar|70|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|15|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 15 || <span style="color:green;">55</span>
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| {{flagcountry|Australia}}|| {{Percentage bar|78|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|17|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 5 || <span style="color:green;">61</span>
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| {{flagcountry|Canada}}|| {{Percentage bar|77|c=#80FF80|width=50}} || {{Percentage bar|12|c=#FF8080|width=50}} || 11 || <span style="color:green;">65</span>
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The {{nihongo|'''foreign relations of Japan'''|日本の国際関係|Nihon no kokusai kankei}} are handled by [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs]].

Japan maintains [[diplomatic relations]] with every [[United Nations member states|United Nations member nations]] except for [[North Korea]], in addition to UN observer states [[Holy See]], as well as [[Kosovo]], [[Cook Islands]], and [[Niue]].

In 19th century, Japanese foreign relations had an earliest beginnings in 5th century and after their opening to the world in 1854 with the [[Convention of Kanagawa]]. Japan had rapidly modernized and built a strong military. In early 20th century, Japan was imperialistic seeking control of nearby areas—with major wars against China and Russia. It gained control parts of China including Manchuria, Korea, Taiwan, Okinawa, and as well as Southeast Asia and Pacific islands. Empire of Japan has lost in [[World War II]] to then-American President [[Harry S. Truman]] and allies, and was stripped of all of its foreign conquests and possessions. (See [[History of Japanese foreign relations]]). American General [[Douglas MacArthur]],  acting for Allied powers, supervised occupied Japan between 1945 and 1951. Since the occupation ended diplomatic policy, Japan has been based on [[Japan–United States relations|close partnership]] with the [[United States of America]] after Truman left from office and seeking trade agreements. In the [[Cold War]] (1947–1991), Japan was demilitarized, but it allied with America, [[Japan–Mexico relations|Mexico]], [[Canada–Japan relations|Canada]], [[Japan–United Kingdom relations|Britain]], [[Australia–Japan relations|Australia]], [[Japan–New Zealand relations|New Zealand]], and among other allied countries in the confrontation with the [[Soviet Union]]. It played a major support role in [[Korean War]] (1950–1953). In a [[Japanese post-war economic miracle|rapid economic developments]] in between early 1960s and 1980s, Japan was one of the [[great power|major greatest economic power]]s in the world.

Since the [[Death and state funeral of Hirohito|death]] of Emperor [[Hirohito]] in January 1989, by early 1990s, Japan became more active assertive, moving from a passive, reactive posture to one of greater international engagement, especially participated in [[peacekeeping]] operations by the United Nations, and sent troops to [[Cambodia]], [[Mozambique]], [[Golan Heights]], and [[East Timor]].<ref>[http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/gaiko/pko/index.html 国連平和維持活動（PKO）] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818034219/http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/gaiko/pko/index.html |date=18 August 2007 }}, Ministry of Foreign Affairs</ref>

In the beginning of 21st century, in early 2001, Japan had focused on maintaining its core relationship with America, especially response to the [[war on terror]], and participating in regional diplomacy, which included supporting stabilization efforts in [[Afghanistan]]. Despite the war on terror after [[9/11]] terror attacks hit America in September 2001, [[Japan Ground Self-Defense Force|Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force]] also dispatched their troops to Southern [[Iraq]] for the restoration of basic infrastructures. Also, [[Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force|Japanese maritime naval]] vessels have been assigned to resupply duties in [[Indian Ocean]] to the present date. 

==Foreign policy==
{{Main|Foreign policy of Japan}}

Beyond its immediate neighbors, Japan has pursued a more active foreign policy in recent years, recognizing the responsibility which accompanies its economic strength.<ref name=":0">{{citation-attribution|1={{Cite web|date=September 2001|title=Background Note: Japan|url=http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/4142.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020606040246/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/4142.htm|archive-date=6 June 2002|publisher=[[U.S. State Department]]}} }}</ref> [[Prime Minister of Japan|Japanese Prime Minister]] [[Yasuo Fukuda]] stressed a changing direction in a policy speech to the [[National Diet]]: "Japan aspires to become a hub of human resource development as well as for research and intellectual contribution to further promote cooperation in the field of peace-building."<ref name="k2008">Komura, Masahiko. [http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/un/pko/symposium0803-s.html  "Building Peacebuilders for the Future,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505150457/http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/un/pko/symposium0803-s.html |date=5 May 2013 }} ''Tokyo Peacebuilders Symposium 2008''. 24 March 2008.</ref> This follows the modest success of a Japanese-conceived peace plan which became the foundation for nationwide elections in [[Cambodia]] in 1998.<ref name=":0" />

==History==
{{Main|History of Japanese foreign relations}}

===Links===
* [[Foreign relations of Meiji Japan]]
* [[International relations of the Great Powers (1814–1919)]]
* [[Diplomatic history of World War I]]
* [[International relations (1919–1939)]]
* [[Causes of World War II]]
* [[Diplomatic history of World War II]]
* [[Cold War]]
** [[History of Sino-Japanese relations]], China
** [[France–Japan relations]]
** [[Germany–Japan relations]]
** [[Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere]], 1930–1945
** [[History of Japan–Korea relations]] 
*** [[Japan–North Korea relations]]
*** [[Japan–South Korea relations]]
** [[Japanese foreign policy on Southeast Asia]]
** [[Japan–Russia relations]]
*** [[Japan–Soviet Union relations]]
** [[Japan–United Kingdom relations]]
** [[Japan–United States relations]]

== Diplomatic relations ==
List of countries which Japan maintains diplomatic relations with:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan="3" |[[File:Diplomatic_relations_of_Japan.svg|frameless|425x425px]]
|-
!#
!Country
!Date<ref>{{Cite web |title=Countries & Regions |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/index.html |access-date=16 July 2023 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |archive-date=7 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230907143712/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|1
|{{Flag|Russia}}
|{{Date table sorting|7 February 1855}}<ref name=":42">{{Cite book |title=Treaties and Conventions concluded between Empire of Japan and Foreign Nations, together with Regulations and Communications 1854-1874 |publisher=Nisshu-sha Printing Office |year=1874 |editor-last=Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Japan |location=Tokyo |pages=table of contents}}</ref>
|-
|2
|{{Flag|Netherlands}}
|{{Date table sorting|30 January 1856}}<ref name=":42" />
|-
|3
|{{Flag|United States}}
|{{Date table sorting|29 July 1858}}<ref name=":42" />
|-
|4
|{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
|{{Date table sorting|26 August 1858}}<ref name="britain">{{Cite web|title=Japan-UK 150 |url=https://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/japanuk150/japanuk150/japanuk_e.html|work=[[Embassy of Japan, London|Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713125442/https://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/japanuk150/japanuk150/japanuk_e.html|archive-date=13 July 2023|access-date=13 August 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|5
|{{Flag|France}}
|{{Dts|9 October 1858}}<ref name=":42" />
|-
|6
|{{Flag|Portugal}}
|{{dts|3 August 1860}}<ref name=":42" />
|-
|7
|{{Flag|Switzerland}}
|{{Date table sorting|6 February 1864}}<ref name=":42" />
|-
|8
|{{Flag|Belgium}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 August 1866}}<ref name=":42" />
|-
|9
|{{Flag|Italy}}
|{{Date table sorting|25 August 1866}}<ref name=":42" />
|-
|10
|{{Flag|Denmark}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 January 1867}}<ref name=":42" />
|-
|11
|{{Flag|Sweden}}
|{{Date table sorting|11 January 1868}}<ref name=":42" />
|-
|12
|{{Flag|Spain}}
|{{dts|12 November 1868}}<ref name=":42" />
|-
|13
|{{Flag|Peru}}
|{{Date table sorting|21 August 1873}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Exposición Perú-Japón: 150 años de amistad |url=https://www.apj.org.pe/agenda_detalle/exposicion-peru-japon-150-anos-de-amistad |access-date=17 July 2023 |language=es |archive-date=17 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230717113909/https://www.apj.org.pe/agenda_detalle/exposicion-peru-japon-150-anos-de-amistad |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|14
|{{Flag|Serbia}}
|{{dts|15 June 1882}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 June 2022 |title=140 years of friendship between Serbia and Japan was marked |url=https://www.mfa.gov.rs/en/press-service/news/140-years-friendship-between-serbia-and-japan-was-marked |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia |access-date=5 August 2024}}</ref>
|-
|15
|{{Flag|Thailand}}
|{{Date table sorting|26 September 1887}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=ญี่ปุ่น (Japan) |url=https://www.mfa.go.th/th/content/5d5bd20d15e39c3060027a22?cate=5f1aba0039164819fc32c0ba |access-date=16 July 2023 |language=th }}{{Dead link|date=June 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
|-
|16
|{{Flag|Mexico}}
|{{dts|30 November 1888}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historia de la Relación Bilateral |url=https://embamex.sre.gob.mx/japon/index.php/es/embajada/relacion-politica/120-relacion-politica-mx-jpn/historia-de-la-relacion-bilateral/318-historia-esp |access-date=9 July 2023 |archive-date=9 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709153341/https://embamex.sre.gob.mx/japon/index.php/es/embajada/relacion-politica/120-relacion-politica-mx-jpn/historia-de-la-relacion-bilateral/318-historia-esp |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|17
|{{Flag|Brazil}}
|{{Date table sorting|5 November 1895}}<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Córdova Quero |first1=Hugo |title=Transnational Faiths: Latin-American Immigrants and their Religions in Japan |last2=Shoji |first2=Rafael |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |page=23}}</ref>
|-
|18
|{{Flag|Chile}}
|{{Date table sorting|25 September 1897}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chile National Day Special |url=https://classified.japantimes.com/nationalday/pdfs/20220919-Chile_National_Day_Special.pdf |website=The Japan Times |access-date=18 September 2024 |quote=For Chile and Japan, this month also has a very special meaning, since it was on Sept. 25, 1897, when our nations signed the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation that marked the beginning of our bilateral diplomatic relations.}}</ref>
|-
|19
|{{Flag|Argentina}}
|{{DTS|3 February 1898}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biblioteca Digital de Tratados |url=https://tratados.cancilleria.gob.ar/busqueda.php |access-date=27 June 2023 |language=es |archive-date=27 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627105921/https://tratados.cancilleria.gob.ar/busqueda.php |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|20
|{{Flag|Greece}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 June 1899}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=27 February 2019 |title=Celebrating Japanese-Greek diplomatic ties |url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/society/238097/celebrating-japanese-greek-diplomatic-ties/ |access-date=16 July 2023 |archive-date=16 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716161707/https://www.ekathimerini.com/society/238097/celebrating-japanese-greek-diplomatic-ties/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|21
|{{Flag|Romania}}
|{{dts|18 June 1902}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diplomatic Relations of Romania |url=https://www.mae.ro/en/node/2187 |access-date=2 July 2022 |archive-date=27 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327210336/https://www.mae.ro/en/node/2187 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|22
|{{Flag|Panama}}
|{{dts|1904|1|7|format=dmy}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=パナマ共和国（Republic of Panama） |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/panama/data.html |access-date=16 July 2023 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |language=ja |archive-date=16 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716195230/https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/panama/data.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|23
|{{Flag|Norway}}
|{{Date table sorting|7 November 1905}}<ref>{{cite web |date=27 April 1999 |title=Norges opprettelse af diplomatiske forbindelser med fremmede stater |url=https://www.regjeringen.no/globalassets/departementene/ud/vedlegg/protokoll/diplomatiske_forbindelser.pdf |access-date=18 October 2021 |website=regjeringen.no |language=no |archive-date=22 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922045702/https://www.regjeringen.no/globalassets/departementene/ud/vedlegg/protokoll/diplomatiske_forbindelser.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|24
|{{Flag|Colombia}}
|{{DTS|25 May 1908}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barbosa |first=Fernando |date=24 October 2018 |title=Así comenzaron las relaciones diplomáticas entre Japón y Colombia |language=es |url=https://www.semana.com/contenidos-editoriales/japon-el-mundo-al-derecho/articulo/asi-comenzaron-las-relaciones-diplomaticas-entre-japon-y-colombia/588278/ |access-date=29 June 2023 |archive-date=29 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629144525/https://www.semana.com/contenidos-editoriales/japon-el-mundo-al-derecho/articulo/asi-comenzaron-las-relaciones-diplomaticas-entre-japon-y-colombia/588278/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|25
|{{Flag|Bolivia}}
|{{Date table sorting|13 April 1914}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 May 2014 |title=El Embajador de Japón en Bolivia; Idemiro Tusubakiel, el Viceministro Parlamentario de Relaciones Exteriores de Japón, Hirotaka Hishihara y el Canciller del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia; David Choquehuanca |url=https://www.cancilleria.gob.bo/webmre/node/607 |access-date=17 July 2023 |language=es |archive-date=17 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230717113907/https://www.cancilleria.gob.bo/webmre/node/607 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|26
|{{Flag|Ecuador}}
|{{Date table sorting|26 August 1918}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=La visita oficial del presidente Lenin Moreno fortalece las relaciones diplomaticas y comerciales entre Ecuador y Japón |url=https://twitter.com/AgriculturaEc/status/1037145347854876673}}</ref>
|-
|27
|{{Flag|Poland}}
|{{Date table sorting|22 March 1919}}
|-
|28
|{{Flag|Finland}}
|{{Date table sorting|24 May 1919}}<ref name="ties2">{{cite web |title=Countries and regions A–Z |url=http://formin.finland.fi/public/default.aspx?nodeid=17195&contentlan=2&culture=en-US |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330044440/http://formin.finland.fi/Public/default.aspx?nodeid=17195&contentlan=2&culture=en-US |archive-date=30 March 2018 |access-date=1 April 2018}}</ref>
|-
|29
|{{Flag|Paraguay}}
|{{Dts|17 November 1919}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Relaciones Diplomáticas |url=https://embapar.jp/embajada/relaciones-diplomaticas/ |access-date=15 July 2023 |language=es |archive-date=15 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715130121/https://embapar.jp/embajada/relaciones-diplomaticas/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|30
|{{Flag|Czech Republic}}
|{{Date table sorting|12 January 1920}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 January 2016 |title=96th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Czech Republic and Japan |url=https://www.mzv.cz/tokyo/en/bilateral_relations/x96th_anniversary_of_establishment_of.html |access-date=16 July 2023 |archive-date=16 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716161706/https://www.mzv.cz/tokyo/en/bilateral_relations/x96th_anniversary_of_establishment_of.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|31
|{{Flag|Austria}}
|{{dts|16 December 1920}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Bulletin de l'Institut intermédiaire international, Volumes 3-4 |publisher=H.D. Tjeenk Willink |year=1920 |pages=384 |language=fr}}</ref>
|-
|32
|{{Flag|Hungary}}
|{{dts|9 February 1921}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Turán |year=1921 |pages=64 |language=hu}}</ref>
|-
|33
|{{Flag|Uruguay}}
|{{Date table sorting|24 September 1921}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 January 2021 |title=Compendio y visitas |url=https://www.uy.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_ja/visitas.html |access-date=17 July 2023 |archive-date=17 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230717111705/https://www.uy.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_ja/visitas.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|34
|{{Flag|Albania}}
|{{Date table sorting|18 April 1922}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 April 2022 |title=Japan - Albania Celebrate a Century of Friendly Relations |url=https://albaniandailynews.com/news/japan---albania-celebrate-a-century-of-friendly-relations |work=Albanian Daily News |access-date=5 August 2024}}</ref>
|-
|35
|{{Flag|Turkey}}
|{{Date table sorting|6 August 1924}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 January 2024 |title=Japan-Türkiye Relations (Basic Data) |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/middle_e/turkey/data.html |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |access-date=5 August 2024}}</ref>
|-
|36
|{{Flag|Luxembourg}}
|{{Date table sorting|27 November 1927}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 November 2017 |title=Japan-Luxembourg Foreign Ministers' Meeting |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/press4e_001819.html |access-date=10 August 2024 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan}}</ref>
|-
|37
|{{Flag|Canada}}
|{{dts|31 January 1928}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Linwood |first=DeLong |date=January 2020 |title=A Guide to Canadian Diplomatic Relations 1925-2019 |url=https://www.cgai.ca/a_guide_to_canadian_diplomatic_relations_1925_2019 |access-date=26 June 2023 |archive-date=7 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607090946/https://www.cgai.ca/a_guide_to_canadian_diplomatic_relations_1925_2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|38
|{{Flag|Iran}}
|{{Date table sorting|4 August 1929}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Bulletin of International News Volume 6, Issue 3 |publisher=Royal Institute of International Affairs. Information Department |year=1929 |pages=84}}</ref>
|-
|39
|{{Flag|Cuba}}
|{{Date table sorting|21 December 1929}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=21 July 2016 |title=Cuba and Japan Interested in Expanding Economic and Trade Ties |url=https://www.trabajadores.cu/20160721/cuba-and-japan-interested-in-expanding-economic-and-trade-ties/ |access-date=17 July 2023 |archive-date=17 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230717113906/https://www.trabajadores.cu/20160721/cuba-and-japan-interested-in-expanding-economic-and-trade-ties/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|40
|{{Flag|Ethiopia}}
|{{Date table sorting|18 November 1930}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Japan: Political reports 1938-1942 |year=2002 |pages=461}}</ref>
|-
|41
|{{flag|Afghanistan|2013}}
|{{Date table sorting|26 July 1931}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=アフガニスタン・イスラム共和国（Islamic Republic of Afghanistan） |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/afghanistan/data.html#section5 |access-date=8 November 2023 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |language=ja}}</ref>
|-
|42
|{{Flag|Dominican Republic}}
|{{Date table sorting|November 1934}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Relaciones diplomáticas |url=https://embadomjp.gob.do/index.php/es/la-embajada/historia |access-date=26 March 2022 |language=es |archive-date=16 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616111439/https://embadomjp.gob.do/index.php/es/la-embajada/historia |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|43
|{{Flag|El Salvador}}
|{{Date table sorting|15 February 1935}}<ref name=":14">{{Cite web |title=REGISTRO DE FECHAS DE ESTABLECIMIENTO DE RD |url=https://www.transparencia.gob.sv/institutions/rree/documents/338286/download |access-date=9 March 2022 |language=es |archive-date=28 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228020506/https://www.transparencia.gob.sv/institutions/rree/documents/338286/download |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|44
|{{Flag|Costa Rica}}
|{{Date table sorting|20 February 1935}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 February 2025 |title=Costa Rica y Japón celebran el 80 aniversario del establecimiento de sus relaciones diplomáticas |url=https://www.rree.go.cr/?sec=servicios&cat=prensa&cont=593&id=2110 |access-date=26 June 2025 |language=es}}</ref>
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|45
|{{Flag|Guatemala}}
|{{dts|20 February 1935}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Relaciones Diplomáticas de Guatemala |url=https://www.minex.gob.gt/DirectorioPaisesRelacion.aspx |access-date=24 July 2021 |language=es |archive-date=9 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240409073937/https://www.minex.gob.gt/DirectorioPaisesRelacion.aspx?__cf_chl_rt_tk=dhO..Vwwo9gqIk67IvyWTUpTEKSPMMvJ5MD3M777TbA-1712648377-0.0.1.1-1557 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|46
|{{Flag|Honduras}}
|{{Date table sorting|20 February 1935}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 February 2025 |title=La presidenta de Honduras recibe las credenciales de nueve embajadores nuevos |url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/spa/la-presidenta-de-honduras-recibe-las-credenciales-de-nueve-embajadores-nuevos/88827020 |access-date=26 June 2025 |language=es}}</ref>
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|47
|{{Flag|Nicaragua}}
|{{Date table sorting|20 February 1935}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 February 2018 |title=83 años de amistad, solidaridad y cooperación entre Japón y Nicaragua |url=https://noticias.asamblea.gob.ni/83-anos-de-amistad-solidaridad-y-cooperacion-entre-japon-y-nicaragua-2/ |access-date=26 June 2025 |language=es}}</ref>
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|48
|{{Flag|Venezuela}}
|{{Dts|19 August 1938}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Venezuela-Japón: 60 años de relaciones, 1938-1998 |year=1998 |pages=12 |language=es}}</ref>
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|49
|{{Flag|Iraq}}
|{{Date table sorting|10 March 1939}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Events Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of Japan-Iraq Diplomatic Relations |url=https://www.iraq.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/00_000209.html |website=Embassy of Japan in Iraq |access-date=10 April 2024 |archive-date=10 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240410075932/https://www.iraq.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/00_000209.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|50
|{{Flag|Bulgaria}}
|{{Date table sorting|2 October 1939}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Minutes |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/files/000307964.pdf |access-date=16 July 2023 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420004213/https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/files/000307964.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|51
|{{Flag|Australia}}
|{{Date table sorting|17 August 1940}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=THE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY IN TOKYO AND AUSTRALIA–JAPAN RELATIONS |url=https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/63881/book.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=19 October 2023 |page=xi |archive-date=23 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023075658/https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/63881/book.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|—
|{{Flag|Holy See}}
|{{dts|4 May 1942}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 May 2022 |title=Japan's PM tells Vatican of concern about human rights in Hong Kong and Xinjiang |url=https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2022/05/04/japans-pm-tells-vatican-of-concern-about-human-rights-in-hong-kong-and-xinjiang/ |work=Vatican News |access-date=5 August 2024}}</ref>
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|52
|{{Flag|Germany}}
|{{dts|19 April 1952}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Japan: Steckbrief |url=https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/service/laender/japan-node/japan-213030 |website=Auswärtiges Amt |access-date=6 March 2025 |language=de}}</ref>
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|53
|{{Flag|India}}
|{{Date table sorting|28 April 1952}}
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|54
|{{Flag|New Zealand}}
|{{Date table sorting|28 April 1952}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Zealand and Japan mark 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/country-report/2022/07/22/new-zealand-report-2022/new-zealand-japan-mark-70th-anniversary-diplomatic-relations/ |access-date=14 June 2023 |website=The Japan Times |date=22 July 2022 |archive-date=13 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230613221229/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/country-report/2022/07/22/new-zealand-report-2022/new-zealand-japan-mark-70th-anniversary-diplomatic-relations/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|55
|{{Flag|Pakistan}}
|{{Date table sorting|28 April 1952}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brief History of Pakistan-Japan Bilateral Relations |url=https://www.pakistanembassytokyo.com/content/brief-history-pakistan-japan-bilateral-relations |access-date=7 January 2024 |website=Embassy of Islamic Republic of Pakistan Tokyo |archive-date=7 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240107141412/https://www.pakistanembassytokyo.com/content/brief-history-pakistan-japan-bilateral-relations |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|56
|{{Flag|Sri Lanka}}
|{{Date table sorting|28 April 1952}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 April 2022 |title=Happy Anniversary! Japan and Sri Lanka established formal diplomatic relations 70 years ago today! |url=https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=357214046442762&id=100064625082470 |website=Embassy of Japan in Sri Lanka on Facebook |access-date=5 August 2024}}</ref>
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|57
|{{Flag|Israel}}
|{{Date table sorting|15 May 1952}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 May 2022 |title=Joint video message by Foreign Ministers of Japan and Israel celebrating the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/me_a/me1/il/page4e_001248.html |access-date=16 July 2023 |archive-date=16 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716170227/https://www.mofa.go.jp/me_a/me1/il/page4e_001248.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|58
|{{Flag|Syria}}
|{{Date table sorting|December 1953}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Embassy of Japan in the Syrian Arab Republic - Overview |url=https://www.sy.emb-japan.go.jp/summary.htm |access-date=16 July 2023 |archive-date=16 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716170229/https://www.sy.emb-japan.go.jp/summary.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|59
|{{Flag|Cambodia}}
|{{Date table sorting|4 May 1954}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=LIST OF MEMBER STATES OF THE UNITED NATIONS (193) HAVING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH CAMBODIA |url=https://www.mfaic.gov.kh/page/2021-02-10-LIST-OF-MEMBER-STATES-OF-THE-UNITED-NATIONS--193--HAVING-DIPLOMATIC-RELATIONS-WITH-CAMBOIDA |access-date=2 October 2021 |website=mfaic.gov.kh |archive-date=2 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102062735/https://www.mfaic.gov.kh/page/2021-02-10-LIST-OF-MEMBER-STATES-OF-THE-UNITED-NATIONS--193--HAVING-DIPLOMATIC-RELATIONS-WITH-CAMBOIDA |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|60
|{{Flag|Jordan}}
|{{Date table sorting|14 July 1954}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jordan-Japan Bilateral Relations |url=https://jordanembassyjapan.com/jordan-japan-relations/ |access-date=12 June 2023 |website=The Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Tokyo,Japan |archive-date=12 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230612171705/https://jordanembassyjapan.com/jordan-japan-relations/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|61
|{{Flag|Egypt}}
|{{Date table sorting|23 August 1954}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Japan-Egypt Foreign Ministers' Meetings |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/pressite_000001_00498.html |access-date=8 December 2024 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan}}</ref>
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|62
|{{Flag|Lebanon}}
|{{Date table sorting|November 1954}}
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|63
|{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 December 1954}}<ref>{{cite web |date= |title=Diplomatic relations |url=http://myanmarbsb.org/_site/diplomatic-relations/ |access-date=13 May 2022 |archive-date=12 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230712174127/http://myanmarbsb.org/_site/diplomatic-relations/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|64
|{{Flag|Laos}}
|{{Date table sorting|5 March 1955}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diplomatic Relations |url=http://www.mofa.gov.la/index.php/lo/2015-04-07-02-45-52/1950 |access-date=30 June 2021 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Laos |archive-date=1 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601144934/http://www.mofa.gov.la/index.php/lo/2015-04-07-02-45-52/1950 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|65
|{{Flag|Saudi Arabia}}
|{{Date table sorting|7 June 1955}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 September 2015 |title=Japan-Saudi Arabia Relations |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/me_a/me2/sa/page23e_000223.html#:~:text=(Note)%20Japan%20and%20the%20Kingdom,of%20both%20countries%20in%20Egypt. |access-date=25 September 2023 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |archive-date=29 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929131250/https://www.mofa.go.jp/me_a/me2/sa/page23e_000223.html#:~:text=(Note)%20Japan%20and%20the%20Kingdom,of%20both%20countries%20in%20Egypt. |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|66
|{{Flag|Sudan}}
|{{Date table sorting|6 January 1956}}
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|67
|{{Flag|Haiti}}
|{{Date table sorting|23 April 1956}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 May 1956 |title=Diplomatic relations established |url=https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/AA00015023/00367/2x |access-date=2 January 2024 |work=Haiti Sun }}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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|68
|{{Flag|Morocco}}
|{{Date table sorting|19 June 1956}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 July 2016 |title=Press Releases |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/press4e_001199.html |access-date=15 April 2024 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |archive-date=16 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416190501/https://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/press4e_001199.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|69
|{{Flag|Tunisia}}
|{{Date table sorting|26 June 1956}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 June 2016 |title=Press Releases |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/press4e_001189.html |access-date=15 April 2024 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |archive-date=16 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416190509/https://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/press4e_001189.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|70
|{{Flag|Philippines}}
|{{Date table sorting|23 July 1956}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 July 2023 |title=The Republic of the Philippines and Japan celebrate 67 years of formal diplomatic relations today, July 23! |url=https://twitter.com/DFAPHL/status/1682923798935515137 |access-date=31 July 2023 |archive-date=31 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230731194756/https://twitter.com/DFAPHL/status/1682923798935515137 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|71
|{{Flag|Nepal}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 September 1956}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bilateral Relations |url=https://mofa.gov.np/foreign-policy/bilateral-relation/ |access-date=25 June 2021 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal |archive-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816132805/https://mofa.gov.np/foreign-policy/bilateral-relation/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|72
|{{Flag|Iceland}}
|{{Date table sorting|8 December 1956}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Iceland - Establishment of Diplomatic Relations |url=https://www.government.is/ministries/ministry-for-foreign-affairs/protocol/establishment-of-diplomatic-relations/ |access-date=1 August 2021 |website=Government of Iceland |archive-date=1 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001104210/https://www.government.is/ministries/ministry-for-foreign-affairs/protocol/establishment-of-diplomatic-relations/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|73
|{{Flag|Ireland}}
|{{Date table sorting|5 March 1957}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The 50th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations |url=https://www.ie.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/00_000114.html |access-date=30 October 2020 |publisher=Embassy of Japan in Ireland |archive-date=7 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107220129/https://www.ie.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/00_000114.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|74
|{{Flag|Ghana}}
|{{Date table sorting|6 March 1957}}
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|75
|{{Flag|Libya}}
|{{Date table sorting|2 June 1957}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=三、最近におけるわが国外交の大要 |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/gaiko/bluebook/1957/s32-1-3.htm |access-date=10 March 2024 |website=mofa.go.jp |language=ja |archive-date=10 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310184843/https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/gaiko/bluebook/1957/s32-1-3.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|76
|{{Flag|Malaysia}}
|{{dts|31 August 1957}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Senarai tarikh penubuhan hubungan diplomatik Malaysia dan negara - negara luar |url=https://www.data.gov.my/data/dataset/30411e5d-8c25-47fb-940e-0d51149afe20/resource/fc684f56-c8bb-4f65-ab65-8eb5e68c9b5d/download/01-tarikh-penubuhan-hubungan-diplomatik-malaysia.xlsx |url-status=dead |access-date=13 November 2021 |language=ms |archive-date=13 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113141021/https://www.data.gov.my/data/dataset/30411e5d-8c25-47fb-940e-0d51149afe20/resource/fc684f56-c8bb-4f65-ab65-8eb5e68c9b5d/download/01-tarikh-penubuhan-hubungan-diplomatik-malaysia.xlsx }}</ref>
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|77
|{{Flag|Indonesia}}
|{{Date table sorting|20 January 1958}}<ref name="kedubesjepang">{{Cite web |title=Peringatan 60 Tahun Hubungan Diplomatik Jepang -Indonesia |url=https://www.id.emb-japan.go.jp/60years_i.html |website=Kedutaan Besar Jepang di Indonesia |access-date=20 January 2025 |lang=id}}</ref>
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|78
|{{Flag|Guinea}}
|{{Date table sorting|14 November 1958}}
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|79
|{{Flag|Cameroon}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 January 1960}}<ref name=":2" />
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|80
|{{Flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}
|{{Date table sorting|30 June 1960}}
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|81
|{{Flag|Madagascar}}
|{{Date table sorting|5 July 1960}}
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|82
|{{Flag|Republic of the Congo}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 August 1960}}
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|83
|{{Flag|Central African Republic}}
|{{Date table sorting|13 August 1960}}<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=16 March 2020 |title=Bilateral Relations |url=https://www.cmr.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/japan-cameroon-en.html |access-date=17 July 2023 |archive-date=22 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022231842/https://www.cmr.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/japan-cameroon-en.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|84
|{{Flag|Gabon}}
|{{Date table sorting|17 August 1960}}
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|85
|{{Flag|Nigeria}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 October 1960}}
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|86
|{{Flag|Senegal}}
|{{Date table sorting|4 October 1960}}
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|87
|{{Flag|Mauritania}}
|{{Date table sorting|29 November 1960}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Japan-Mauritania Relations (Basic Data) |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/africa/mauritania/data.html |access-date=30 December 2018 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |archive-date=30 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230233715/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/africa/mauritania/data.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|88
|{{Flag|Togo}}
|{{Date table sorting|4 April 1961}}<ref name="soumu" />
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|89
|{{Flag|Ivory Coast}}
|{{Date table sorting|15 April 1961}}<ref name="soumu" />
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|90
|{{Flag|Sierra Leone}}
|{{Date table sorting|27 April 1961}}
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|91
|{{Flag|Benin}}
|{{Date table sorting|April 1961}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 March 2024 |title=64ème anniversaire de Sa Majesté Naruhito : Le Bénin et le Japon se félicitent d'un partenariat stratégique |url=https://leconomistebenin.com/le-benin-et-le-japon-se-felicitent-dun-partenariat-strategique/ |language=fr}}</ref>
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|92
|{{Flag|Liberia}}
|{{Date table sorting|September 1961}}
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|93
|{{Flag|Chad}}
|{{Date table sorting|6 December 1961}}<ref name="soumu">{{Cite web |title=法第11条を適用し、通知した期限までに開示決定等がされなかったもの（資料４） |url=https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/gyoukan/kanri/jyohokokai/pdf/js18_g_04.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309211515/https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/gyoukan/kanri/jyohokokai/pdf/js18_g_04.pdf |archive-date=9 March 2013 |access-date=26 April 2024 |page=10 |language=ja}}</ref>
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|94
|{{Flag|Somalia}}
|{{Date table sorting|6 December 1961}}<ref name="soumu" />
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|95
|{{Flag|Kuwait}}
|{{Date table sorting|8 December 1961}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 December 2021 |title=Photo exhibition marks 60 yrs of Kuwait-Japan diplomatic ties |url=https://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticlePrintPage.aspx?id=3013668&language=en |access-date=16 July 2023 |website=Kuwait News Agency}}</ref>
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|96
|{{Flag|Tanzania}}
|{{dts|9 December 1961}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 December 2021 |title=タンザニア建国及び日タンザニア関係の60周年をお祝いして |url=https://www.tz.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_ja/amb_jptz60.html |access-date=7 March 2025 |work=Embassy of Japan in Tanzania |language=ja}}</ref>
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|97
|{{Flag|Mali}}
|{{Date table sorting|18 January 1962}}<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yUecw8fOOHkC&dq=appointed+ambassador+of+japan+to+Mali+Susumu+Nakagawa+19+January+1962&pg=RA7-PA9 |title=Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts Issues 14-15 |publisher=United States. Central Intelligence Agency |year=1962 |access-date=28 December 2023 |archive-date=28 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228194746/https://books.google.com/books?id=yUecw8fOOHkC&dq=appointed%20ambassador%20of%20japan%20to%20Mali%20Susumu%20Nakagawa%2019%20January%201962&pg=RA7-PA9 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|98
|{{Flag|Niger}}
|{{Date table sorting|18 March 1962}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Chronologie politique africaine |publisher=Centre d'étude des relations internationales |year=1963 |pages=38 |language=fr}}</ref>
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|99
|{{Flag|Burkina Faso}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 June 1962}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 October 2023 |title=Burkina Faso : Le Japon apporte une aide de 2 milliards FCFA |url=https://www.24heures.bf/burkina-faso-le-japon-apporte-une-aide-de-2-milliards-fcfa/ |access-date=17 March 2024 |language=fr |archive-date=17 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317163848/https://www.24heures.bf/burkina-faso-le-japon-apporte-une-aide-de-2-milliards-fcfa/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|100
|{{Flag|Cyprus}}
|{{Date table sorting|15 June 1962}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 June 2022 |title=Bringing a piece of Japan to Cyprus |url=https://cyprus-mail.com/2022/06/06/bringing-a-piece-of-japan-to-cyprus/ |work=Cyprus Mail |access-date=5 August 2024}}</ref>
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|101
|{{Flag|Burundi}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 July 1962}}
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|102
|{{Flag|Rwanda}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 July 1962}}
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|103
|{{Flag|Algeria}}
|{{Date table sorting|28 November 1962}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=55eme anniversaire des relations diplomatiques Algero-Japonaises |url=https://www.dz.emb-japan.go.jp/jp/Brochure2017.pdf |access-date=24 September 2023 |website=Ambassade du Japon en Algérie |language=fr |archive-date=29 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929131251/https://www.dz.emb-japan.go.jp/jp/Brochure2017.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|104
|{{Flag|Jamaica}}
|{{Date table sorting|16 March 1964}}<ref>{{cite web |date=16 April 2021 |title=Countries with which Jamaica has Established Diplomatic Relations |url=http://mfaft.gov.jm/jm/establishment-of-diplomatic-relations |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308040029/http://mfaft.gov.jm/jm/establishment-of-diplomatic-relations |archive-date=8 March 2016 |access-date=16 April 2021}}</ref>
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|105
|{{Flag|Uganda}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 April 1964}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Africa Research Bulletin |publisher=Blackwell |year=1965 |pages=283}}</ref>
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|106
|{{Flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}
|{{Date table sorting|22 May 1964}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=トリニダード・トバゴ概況 - Republic of Trinidad and Tobago |url=https://www.tt.emb-japan.go.jp/files/100066962.pdf |access-date=6 June 2023 |website=tt.emb-japan.go.jp |page=21/38 |language=ja |archive-date=6 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606195548/https://www.tt.emb-japan.go.jp/files/100066962.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|107
|{{Flag|Kenya}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 June 1964}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Countries & Regions |url=https://www.ke.emb-japan.go.jp/files/000150211.pdf |access-date=20 January 2024 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |archive-date=20 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240120095912/https://www.ke.emb-japan.go.jp/files/000150211.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|108
|{{Flag|Malawi}}
|{{Date table sorting|July 1964}}
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|109
|{{Flag|Zambia}}
|{{Date table sorting|October 1964}}
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|110
|{{Flag|Gambia}}
|{{Date table sorting|18 February 1965}}
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|111
|{{Flag|Malta}}
|{{Date table sorting|15 July 1965}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=BUSINESS FORUM ORGANIZED BY TRADE MALTA MONDAY 30TH JULY 2018 TOKYO, JAPAN SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF MALTA, JOSEPH MUSCAT |url=https://www.gov.mt/en/Government/DOI/Press%20Releases/PublishingImages/Pages/2018/July/31/pr181691/pr181691a.pdf |access-date=11 July 2023 |page=3 |archive-date=16 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716163625/https://www.gov.mt/en/Government/DOI/Press%20Releases/PublishingImages/Pages/2018/July/31/pr181691/pr181691a.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|112
|{{Flag|South Korea}}
|{{Date table sorting|18 December 1965}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Countries & Regions |url=https://www.mofa.go.kr/eng/nation/m_4902/list.do |access-date=24 May 2023 |archive-date=24 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230524200503/https://www.mofa.go.kr/eng/nation/m_4902/list.do |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|113
|{{Flag|Singapore}}
|{{dts|26 April 1966}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diplomatic & consular list |url=https://www.mfa.gov.sg/Overseas-Missions/-/media/D74B3129AEFA44BB8FC411746F005489.ashx |access-date=11 July 2022 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore |page= |archive-date=14 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314222839/https://www.mfa.gov.sg/Overseas-Missions/-/media/D74B3129AEFA44BB8FC411746F005489.ashx |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|114
|{{Flag|Botswana}}
|{{Date table sorting|September 1966}}
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|115
|{{Flag|Guyana}}
|{{DTS|11 June 1967}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 July 2019 |title=President Granger accredits new Japanese Ambassador to Guyana |url=https://op.gov.gy/index.php/2019/07/17/president-granger-accredits-new-japanese-ambassador-to-guyana/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127043058/https://op.gov.gy/index.php/2019/07/17/president-granger-accredits-new-japanese-ambassador-to-guyana/ |archive-date=27 January 2021 |access-date=3 June 2025 |website=op.gov.gy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Japan-Guyana Relations (Basic Data) |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/guyana/data.html |access-date=3 June 2025 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan}}</ref>
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|116
|{{Flag|Barbados}}
|{{Date table sorting|29 August 1967}}<ref name="diplomaticrelations">{{Cite web |title=LIST OF COUNTRIES WITH WHICH BARBADOS HAS DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BY REGIONS |url=http://foreign.gov.bb/documents/foreign-policy/22-countries-with-diplomaic-relations-with-barbados/file |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813184054/https://www.foreign.gov.bb/documents/foreign-policy/22-countries-with-diplomaic-relations-with-barbados/file |archive-date=13 August 2017 |access-date=25 March 2021 |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (Barbados)}}</ref>
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|117
|{{Flag|Maldives}}
|{{dts|14 November 1967}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 May 2023 |title=Countries with which the Republic of Maldives has established Diplomatic Relations |url=https://www.gov.mv/en/files/dpl-full-country-list-as-of-11-may-2023--8993.pdf |access-date=7 July 2023 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Maldives |archive-date=29 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629032804/https://www.gov.mv/en/files/dpl-full-country-list-as-of-11-may-2023--8993.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|118
|{{Flag|Equatorial Guinea}}
|{{Date table sorting|12 November 1968}}
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|119
|{{Flag|Mauritius}}
|{{Date table sorting|22 October 1969}}<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite book |title=Mauritius Directory of the Diplomatic Corps; High Commissions, Embassies, Consulates, International Organization[s] |publisher=Mauritius. Ministry of External Affairs, Tourism, and Emigration |year=1970 |pages=46}}</ref>
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|120
|{{Flag|Tonga}}
|{{Date table sorting|July 1970}}
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|121
|{{Flag|Yemen}}
|{{Date table sorting|22 September 1970}}
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|122
|{{Flag|Fiji}}
|{{Date table sorting|15 October 1970}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Formal diplomatic relations list |url=http://www.foreignaffairs.gov.fj/images/FDR_LIST_version_of_6_June_2016.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827171052/http://www.foreignaffairs.gov.fj/images/FDR_LIST_version_of_6_June_2016.pdf |archive-date=27 August 2019 |access-date=31 March 2018}}</ref>
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|123
|{{Flag|Eswatini}}
|{{Date table sorting|21 May 1971}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Kingdom of Eswatini today held a virtual celebration of 50 years of Diplomatic relations with Japan. |url=https://twitter.com/MfaicSd/status/1395806651664539648 |access-date=19 April 2024 |archive-date=20 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020175724/https://twitter.com/MfaicSd/status/1395806651664539648 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|124
|{{Flag|Lesotho}}
|{{Date table sorting|29 July 1971}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 July 2021 |title=Office of the Prime Minister, Kingdom of Lesotho se plasing |url=https://www.facebook.com/Qhobosheaneng/posts/remarks-by-the-rt-hon-the-prime-minister-dr-moeketsi-majoro-on-the-occasion-to-m/340213287777294/?locale=af_ZA |website=Office of the Prime Minister, Kingdom of Lesotho on Facebook |access-date=19 April 2024 |archive-date=19 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240419130149/https://www.facebook.com/Qhobosheaneng/posts/remarks-by-the-rt-hon-the-prime-minister-dr-moeketsi-majoro-on-the-occasion-to-m/340213287777294/?locale=af_ZA |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|125
|{{Flag|Bangladesh}}
|{{Date table sorting|10 February 1972}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bilateral Political Relations |url=https://tokyo.mofa.gov.bd/en/site/page/Political-Relations |access-date=18 January 2024 |website=Embassy of the People's Republic of Bangladesh Tokyo}}</ref>
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|126
|{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|{{Date table sorting|24 February 1972}}
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|127
|{{Flag|Bahrain}}
|{{dts|2 May 1972}}<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |title=政府公表集: 對外關係 |publisher=クレス出版 |year=1972 |pages=65 |language=ja}}</ref>
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|128
|{{Flag|United Arab Emirates}}
|{{Date table sorting|4 May 1972}}<ref name=":12" />
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|129
|{{Flag|Oman}}
|{{Date table sorting|8 May 1972}}<ref name=":12" />
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|130
|{{Flag|Qatar}}
|{{Date table sorting|9 May 1972}}<ref name=":12" />
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|131
|{{Flag|China}}
|{{Date table sorting|29 September 1972}}
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|132
|{{Flag|Nauru}}
|{{Date table sorting|December 1972}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Pacific Islands Monthly: PIM., Volume 44, Issues 1-6 |publisher=Pacific Publications, 1973 |pages=7}}</ref>
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|133
|{{Flag|Samoa}}
|{{Date table sorting|27 March 1973}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Countries with Established Diplomatic Relations with Samoa |url=http://www.mfat.gov.ws/embassies/countries-with-established-diplomatic-relations-with-samoa/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200214005624/https://www.mfat.gov.ws/embassies/countries-with-established-diplomatic-relations-with-samoa/ |archive-date=14 February 2020 |access-date=19 August 2018 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Samoa}}</ref>
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|134
|{{Flag|Vietnam}}
|{{Date table sorting|21 September 1973}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 2010 |title=Asia |url=https://lamdong.gov.vn/sites/lderd/operationnotes/countriesandregions/SitePages/asia.aspx |access-date=29 April 2023 |publisher=Government of Vietnam |archive-date=29 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429134519/https://lamdong.gov.vn/sites/lderd/operationnotes/countriesandregions/SitePages/asia.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|135
|{{Flag|Guinea-Bissau}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 August 1974}}
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|136
|{{Flag|Bahamas}}
|{{Date table sorting|11 March 1975}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 January 2011 |title=Bahamas and Japan sign Tax Information Exchange Agreement |url=http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/bis-news-updates/Bahamas_and_Japan_sign_Tax_Information_Exchange_Agreement14228.shtml |access-date=17 July 2023 |archive-date=17 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230717113906/http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/bis-news-updates/Bahamas_and_Japan_sign_Tax_Information_Exchange_Agreement14228.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|137
|{{Flag|Grenada}}
|{{Date table sorting|11 April 1975}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=グレナダ（Grenada） |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/grenada/data.html |access-date=16 June 2023 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |language=ja}}</ref>
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|138
|{{Flag|Cape Verde}}
|{{Date table sorting|11 July 1975}}
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|139
|{{Flag|São Tomé and Príncipe}}
|{{Date table sorting|22 July 1975}}
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|140
|{{Flag|Papua New Guinea}}
|{{Date table sorting|16 September 1975}}<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |title=Guidelines of the Foreign Policy of Papua New Guinea: Universalism |publisher=Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Papua New Guinea |year=1976 |pages=55 |language=English}}</ref>
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|141
|{{Flag|Seychelles}}
|{{Date table sorting|29 June 1976}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 November 2021 |title=Japanese ambassador Horie Ryoichi says farewell |url=https://www.nation.sc/articles/11375/japanese-ambassador-horie-ryoichi-says-farewell |access-date=16 July 2023 |archive-date=16 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716195227/https://www.nation.sc/articles/11375/japanese-ambassador-horie-ryoichi-says-farewell |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|142
|{{Flag|Angola}}
|{{Date table sorting|9 September 1976}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Relações Diplomáticas |url=https://mirex.gov.ao/PortalMIREX/#!/politica-externa/relacoes-diplomaticas |access-date=12 April 2023 |website=mirex.gov.ao |language=pt}}</ref>
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|143
|{{Flag|Suriname}}
|{{dts|2 November 1976}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lijst van Diplomatieke Betrekkingen en Visum-afschaffingsovereenkomsten |url=http://www.gov.sr/media/12102008/lijst-van-diplomatieke-betrekkingen-en-visum-afschaffingsovereenkomsten.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416134520/http://www.gov.sr/media/12102008/lijst-van-diplomatieke-betrekkingen-en-visum-afschaffingsovereenkomsten.pdf |archive-date=16 April 2019 |access-date=22 December 2021 |website=gov.sr |language=nl}}</ref>
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|144
|{{Flag|Mozambique}}
|{{Date table sorting|January 1977}}
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|145
|{{Flag|Comoros}}
|{{Date table sorting|14 November 1977}}
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|146
|{{Flag|Djibouti}}
|{{Date table sorting|24 August 1978}}<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/fbis-reports_prex-710fbis-apa-78-165/page/n8/mode/1up?q=Djibouti+diplomatic+relations |title=Asia & Pacific... Daily Report... 24 August 1978... VOL.IV... No.165... Foreign Broadcast Information |date=24 August 1978 |publisher=United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service |access-date=26 January 2024}}</ref>
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|147
|{{Flag|Solomon Islands}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 September 1978}}<ref>{{cite web |date=1 June 2020 |title=Solomon Islands Diplomatic and Consular List |url=http://www.mfaet.gov.sb/resources/publications/22-foreign-affairs-p/61-solomon-islands-diplomatic-and-consular-list.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812053600/http://www.mfaet.gov.sb/resources/publications/22-foreign-affairs-p/61-solomon-islands-diplomatic-and-consular-list.html |archive-date=12 August 2021 |access-date=12 December 2020 |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Solomon Islands |pages=36–38}}</ref>
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|148
|{{Flag|Dominica}}
|{{DTS|12 November 1978}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Daily Report: Asia & Pacific, (233–245) |publisher=United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service |year=1978 |pages=10}}</ref>
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|149
|{{Flag|Tuvalu}}
|{{Date table sorting|30 April 1979}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Daily Report: Asia & Pacific |year=1979 |volume=80-91 |pages=41}}</ref>
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|150
|{{Flag|Saint Lucia}}
|{{Date table sorting|11 January 1980}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Daily Report: Asia & Pacific - Issues 6-20 |publisher=The Service |year=1980}}</ref>
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|151
|{{Flag|Kiribati}}
|{{Date table sorting|21 March 1980}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Daily Report: Asia & Pacific - Issues 51-65 - Page 11 |publisher=March 1980}}</ref>
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|152
|{{Flag|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}}
|{{Date table sorting|15 April 1980}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diplomatic and Consular List |url=https://foreign.gov.vc/foreign/images/stories/DiplomaticRelations/Updated_Diplomatic_List_Revised-as_at_February_2020_1_1.pdf |access-date=11 July 2023 |pages=104–112 |archive-date=1 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001014719/https://foreign.gov.vc/foreign/images/stories/DiplomaticRelations/Updated_Diplomatic_List_Revised-as_at_February_2020_1_1.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|153
|{{Flag|Zimbabwe}}
|{{dts|5 June 1980}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Daily Report Asia & Pacific · Issues 107-116 |publisher=United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service |year=1980 |pages=11 |quote=[Text] Tokyo June 5 KYODO -- Japan and Zimbabwe have established diplomatic relations, the Foreign Ministry announced Thursday.}}</ref>
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|154
|{{Flag|Vanuatu}}
|{{Dts|8 January 1981}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Daily Report: Asia & Pacific, 1–10 |publisher=The Service |year=1981 |pages=7}}</ref>
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|155
|{{Flag|Antigua and Barbuda}}
|{{Dts|4 October 1982}}<ref name=":03">{{cite web |author=Government of Antigua and Barbuda |title=Chronology of Antigua and Barbudas Bilateral relations |url=http://www.un.int/antigua/bilachro.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117180614/http://www.un.int/antigua/bilachro.htm |archive-date=17 January 2012 |access-date=24 February 2011}}</ref>
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|156
|{{Flag|Belize}}
|{{Date table sorting|3 November 1982}}<ref name=":04">{{Cite web |title=Diplomatic Relations |url=http://www.mfa.gov.bz/images/documents/DIPLOMATIC%20RELATIONS.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230194831/http://www.mfa.gov.bz/images/documents/DIPLOMATIC%20RELATIONS.pdf |archive-date=30 December 2017 |access-date=30 December 2016}}</ref>
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|157
|{{Flag|Brunei}}
|{{Date table sorting|2 April 1984}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Japan |url=https://www.mfa.gov.bn/Pages/br_Japan.aspx |access-date=24 April 2023 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs Brunei Darussalam |archive-date=20 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620221936/https://www.mfa.gov.bn/Pages/br_Japan.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|158
|{{Flag|Saint Kitts and Nevis}}
|{{Date table sorting|14 January 1985}}<ref name=":02" />
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|159
|{{Flag|Bhutan}}
|{{Date table sorting|28 March 1986}}
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|160
|{{Flag|Federated States of Micronesia}}
|{{Date table sorting|5 August 1988}}<ref name="Dates">{{cite web |title=FSM Diplomatic Relations List |url=http://www.fsmgov.org/diprel.html |access-date=13 November 2022 |publisher=Government of the Federated States of Micronesia |archive-date=25 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425110342/http://www.fsmgov.org/diprel.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|161
|{{Flag|Marshall Islands}}
|{{DTS|9 December 1988}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=LISTING OF ALL COUNTRIES WHICH HAVE ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH THE REPUBLIC OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS (As of 13 February 2019) |url=https://www.rmiembassyus.org/about-2 |url-status=dead |access-date=29 November 2021 |archive-date=18 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718175857/https://www.rmiembassyus.org/about-2 }}</ref>
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|162
|{{Flag|Namibia}}
|{{Date table sorting|21 March 1990}}<ref>{{cite web |last=Mushelenga |first=Samuel Abraham Peyavali |date=2008 |title=Foreign policy-making in Namibia : the dynamics of the smallness of a state |url=https://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/2703/dissertation_mushelenga_%20s.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y |pages=254–259 |access-date=17 July 2023 |archive-date=13 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240113033214/https://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/2703/dissertation_mushelenga_%20s.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=4 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|163
|{{Flag|Estonia}}
|{{Date table sorting|10 October 1991}}
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|164
|{{Flag|Latvia}}
|{{Date table sorting|10 October 1991}}
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|165
|{{Flag|Lithuania}}
|{{Date table sorting|10 October 1991}}<ref>{{cite web |title=List of countries with which Lithuania has established diplomatic relations |url=https://jp.mfa.lt/default/en/list-of-countries-with-which-lithuania-has-established-diplomatic-relations |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110123939/https://jp.mfa.lt/default/en/list-of-countries-with-which-lithuania-has-established-diplomatic-relations |archive-date=10 January 2022 |access-date=10 January 2022 |website=}}</ref>
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|166
|{{Flag|South Africa}}
|{{dts|13 January 1992}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bilateral Relations (country profiles listed alphabetically) |url=https://www.dirco.gov.za/bilateral-relations/ |access-date=23 November 2022 |archive-date=13 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513171628/https://www.dirco.gov.za/bilateral-relations/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|167
|{{Flag|Belarus}}
|{{Date table sorting|26 January 1992}}
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|168
|{{Flag|Kazakhstan}}
|{{Date table sorting|26 January 1992}}
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|169
|{{Flag|Kyrgyzstan}}
|{{Date table sorting|26 January 1992}}
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|170
|{{Flag|Uzbekistan}}
|{{Date table sorting|26 January 1992}}
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|171
|{{Flag|Ukraine}}
|{{Date table sorting|26 January 1992}}
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|172
|{{Flag|Tajikistan}}
|{{Date table sorting|2 February 1992}}
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|173
|{{Flag|Moldova}}
|{{Date table sorting|16 March 1992}}
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|174
|{{Flag|Turkmenistan}}
|{{Date table sorting|22 April 1922}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=STATES WITH WHICH TURKMENISTAN ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS |url=https://www.mfa.gov.tm/en/articles/55?breadcrumbs=no |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508101911/https://www.mfa.gov.tm/en/articles/55?breadcrumbs=no |archive-date=8 May 2019 |access-date=17 March 2022}}</ref>
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|175
|{{Flag|Georgia}}
|{{Date table sorting|3 August 1992}}
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|176
|{{Flag|Armenia}}
|{{Date table sorting|7 September 1992}}
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|177
|{{Flag|Azerbaijan}}
|{{Date table sorting|7 September 1992}}
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|178
|{{Flag|Slovenia}}
|{{Date table sorting|12 October 1992}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Đogić |first=Mojca Pristavec |date=September 2016 |title=Priznanja samostojne Slovenije |url=https://fotogalerija.dz-rs.si/datoteke/Publikacije/Zborniki_RN/2016/Priznanja_samostojne_Slovenije_.pdf |access-date=11 July 2023 |language=sl |archive-date=26 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426044554/https://fotogalerija.dz-rs.si/datoteke/Publikacije/Zborniki_RN/2016/Priznanja_samostojne_Slovenije_.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|179
|{{Flag|Slovakia}}
|{{Date table sorting|3 February 1993}}
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|180
|{{Flag|Croatia}}
|{{Date table sorting|5 March 1993}}
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|181
|{{Flag|Eritrea}}
|{{Dts|31 August 1993}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Eritrea Update, August 1993-2 |publisher=Provisional Government of Eritrea (EPLF), Mission to the USA and Canada}}</ref>
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|182
|{{Flag|North Macedonia}}
|{{Date table sorting|1 March 1994}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bilateral relations |url=http://www.mfa.gov.mk/default1.aspx?ItemID=310 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930040551/http://www.mfa.gov.mk/default1.aspx?ItemID=310 |archive-date=30 September 2011 |access-date=3 April 2021 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia}}</ref>
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|183
|{{Flag|Palau}}
|{{Date table sorting|2 November 1994}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Countries with which Palau has Diplomatic Relations |url=https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/migrated/oia/islands/upload/PalauDipRelations.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317135821/https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/migrated/oia/islands/upload/PalauDipRelations.pdf |archive-date=17 March 2016 |access-date=4 April 2022 |publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior}}</ref>
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|184
|{{Flag|Andorra}}
|{{dts|20 October 1995|format=dmy}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Diplomatic relations |url=https://www.exteriors.ad/en/101-continguts-angles/diplomatic-representations/diplomatic-relations |access-date=3 July 2021 |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Andorra |archive-date=20 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520090029/https://www.exteriors.ad/en/101-continguts-angles/diplomatic-representations/diplomatic-relations |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|185
|{{Flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}
|{{Date table sorting|9 February 1996}}
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|186
|{{Flag|San Marino}}
|{{Dts|27 May 1996}}<ref name=":52">{{Cite web |title=Rapporti bilaterali della Repubblica di San Marino |url=https://www.esteri.sm/pub2/EsteriSM/Relazioni-Internazionali/Rapporti-Bilaterali.html |access-date=15 December 2021 |language=it |archive-date=11 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311203622/https://www.esteri.sm/pub2/EsteriSM/Relazioni-Internazionali/Rapporti-Bilaterali.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|187
|{{Flag|Liechtenstein}}
|{{dts|12 June 1996}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=出展 [外務省] [各国・地域情勢] |url=http://www.taxlabo.com/foreign_infomation/liechtenstein.html |access-date=15 December 2024 |website=taxlabo.com |language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Daily Report: East Asia - Volume 1996, Issues 115-123 |publisher=United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service |year=1996 |pages=8 |quote=Diplomatic Relations With Liechtenstein OW1206122896 Tokyo KYODO in English 1035 GMT 12 Jun 96 - [ FBIS Transcribed Text ] ...}}</ref>
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|188
|{{Flag|Timor-Leste}}
|{{Date table sorting|20 May 2002}}
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|189
|{{Flag|Montenegro}}
|{{Date table sorting|16 June 2006}}
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|190
|{{Flag|Monaco}}
|{{dts|14 December 2006}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Rapport de Politique Extérieure 2007 |url=https://www.gouv.mc/Action-Gouvernementale/Monaco-a-l-International/Publications/Rapports-de-Politique-Exterieure |accessdate=11 October 2020 |page=44 |language=fr |archive-date=18 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718081941/https://www.gouv.mc/Action-Gouvernementale/Monaco-a-l-International/Publications/Rapports-de-Politique-Exterieure |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|{{Flag|Kosovo}}
|{{Date table sorting|25 February 2009}}
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|{{Flag|Cook Islands}}
|{{Dts|16 June 2011}}<ref>{{cite web |date=2011-06-20 |title=Establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and the Cook Islands and a courtesy call by Mr Takeaki Matsumoto, Foreign Minister of Japan to Hon Henry Puna, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands |url=http://www.nz.emb-japan.go.jp/documents/Establishment%20of%20diplomatic%20relations%20between%20Japan%20and%20the%20Cook%20Islands%20and%20courtesy%20call%20%20Mr%20Takeaki%20Matsumoto.pdf |access-date=2015-10-09 |publisher=Embassy of Japan in New Zealand |archive-date=17 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917183247/http://www.nz.emb-japan.go.jp/documents/Establishment%20of%20diplomatic%20relations%20between%20Japan%20and%20the%20Cook%20Islands%20and%20courtesy%20call%20%20Mr%20Takeaki%20Matsumoto.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|{{Flag|South Sudan}}
|{{dts|9 July 2011}}<ref name=":21">{{cite web |date=2011-07-13 |title=Japan / Establishment of Diplomatic Relations with the Republic of South Sudan « Database of Press Releases related to Africa – APO-Source |url=http://appablog.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/japan-establishment-of-diplomatic-relations-with-the-republic-of-south-sudan/ |access-date=2012-03-19 |publisher=Appablog.wordpress.com |archive-date=17 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717132213/http://appablog.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/japan-establishment-of-diplomatic-relations-with-the-republic-of-south-sudan/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|{{Flag|Niue}}
|{{Date table sorting|4 August 2015}}<ref>{{cite web |date=2015-08-10 |title=Niue Establish Diplomatic Relations with Japan |url=http://www.niuegov-premiersoffice.com/uploads/3/1/8/2/31826071/niue_establish_diplomatic_relations_with_japan_pr23.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928073927/http://www.niuegov-premiersoffice.com/uploads/3/1/8/2/31826071/niue_establish_diplomatic_relations_with_japan_pr23.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-28 |access-date=2015-08-19 |publisher=Government of Niue}}</ref>
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== Bilateral relations ==

=== Africa ===
{{Main|Japanese foreign policy on Africa}}
Japan is increasingly active in [[Africa]]. In May 2008, the first [[Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize]] will be awarded at Fourth [[Tokyo International Conference on African Development]] (TICAD IV),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cao.go.jp/noguchisho/english/index.html|title=Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110041854/http://www.cao.go.jp/noguchisho/english/index.html|archive-date=10 January 2018}}</ref> which signals a changing emphasis in bilateral relations.
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!width="15%"| Country
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|{{flag|Algeria}}||1962||See [[Algeria–Japan relations]]
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|{{flag|Angola }}||September 1976||See [[Angola–Japan relations]]
Angola–Japan relations were established in September 1976, shortly after Angola received formal [[sovereignty]]. As of 2007, economic relations played "a fundamental role in the bilateral relations between the two governments".<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.newsworldcenters.com/2019/05/president-donald-j-trump-is-advancing.html | title=President Donald J. Trump is Advancing Our Partnership with Japan as We Work Toward a New Era of Global Cooperation and Shared Prosperity | access-date=28 May 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528102928/https://www.newsworldcenters.com/2019/05/president-donald-j-trump-is-advancing.html | archive-date=28 May 2019 | url-status=dead }}</ref> News World Centers<ref name=a>{{cite web |year=2007 |url=https://www.newsworldcenters.com/2019/05/president-donald-j-trump-is-advancing.html |title=Japan Finances Building of Schools in Angola |publisher=Angola Press |access-date=27 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528102928/https://www.newsworldcenters.com/2019/05/president-donald-j-trump-is-advancing.html |archive-date=28 May 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|{{flag|Egypt }}||1922||See [[Egypt–Japan relations]]
Japan considers Egypt to be a key player in the [[Middle East]] and, as such, sees Egypt as a vital part of its diplomacy in the region.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/Africa/egypt/index.html |title=Japan–Egypt Relations |publisher=MOFA |access-date=19 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090524040743/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/Africa/egypt/index.html |archive-date=24 May 2009  }}</ref> The two heads of government have been known to support each other on issues pertaining to the [[Peacebuilding|peace process]] in the Middle East.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/990413/1999041305.html |title=Egypt, Japan for delay in Palestinian state declaration, resuming deadlocked peace talks |publisher=Arabicnews.com |access-date=19 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214181815/http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/990413/1999041305.html |archive-date=14 February 2012  }}</ref>

Additionally, the two countries claim to share a common vision for world peace.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mdn.mainichi.jp/nationalday/etc/2009/egypt/  |title=Egyptian Japanese Relations: The Year of Egypt Tourism Promotion in Japan 2009 |author=Walid Mahmoud |website=[[Mainichi Daily News]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090517075524/http://mdn.mainichi.jp/nationalday/etc/2009/egypt/ |archive-date=17 May 2009 }}</ref> The two countries maintain a "Joint Committee" dedicated to exploring developments in areas of mutual interest to the two countries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eg.emb-japan.go.jp/e/birateral/japan_egypt/human_exchange.htm |title=Embassy of Japan in Egypt |publisher=Eg.emb-japan.go.jp |access-date=19 September 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929195841/http://www.eg.emb-japan.go.jp/e/birateral/japan_egypt/human_exchange.htm |archive-date=29 September 2011  }}</ref>
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|{{flag|Kenya }}||1963||See [[Japan–Kenya relations]]

* Japan has an embassy in [[Nairobi]].
* Kenya has an embassy in Tokyo.
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|{{flag|Libya}}||1957||See [[Japan–Libya relations]]
* Japan has an embassy in [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]].
* Libya has an embassy in Tokyo.
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|{{flag|Madagascar }}||{{dts|format=dmy|1960|07|5}}||See [[Foreign relations of Madagascar]]

* Japan has an embassy in [[Antananarivo]].
* Madagascar has an embassy in Tokyo.

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|{{flag|Mozambique}}||January 1977||See [[Japan–Mozambique relations]]

* Japan has an embassy in [[Maputo]].
* Mozambique has an embassy in Tokyo.

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|{{flag|Nigeria }}||{{dts|format=dmy|1960|10|1}}||See [[Japan-Nigeria relations]]
Japan and [[Nigeria]] engage in strong economic and political cooperation. Both countries established [[diplomatic relations]] on 1 October 1960.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/africa/nigeria/index.html |title=Japan–Nigeria Relations |publisher=MOFA |access-date=19 September 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830192256/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/africa/nigeria/index.html |archive-date=30 August 2011  }}</ref>
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|{{flag|Somalia }}||July 1960||See [[Japan–Somalia relations]]
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|{{flag|South Africa }}||1910||See [[Japan–South Africa relations]]

* Japan has an embassy in [[Pretoria]].
* South Africa has an embassy in Tokyo.
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|{{flag|Tunisia }}||June 1956||See [[Foreign relations of Tunisia]]
Japan and Tunisia have a mutual free visa agreement.
* Japan has an embassy in Cité Mahrajène, [[Tunis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tn.emb-japan.go.jp/amb/infos.html|access-date=20 August 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150825051309/http://www.tn.emb-japan.go.jp/amb/infos.html|archive-date=25 August 2015|title=Ambassade du Japon en Tunisie}}</ref>
* Tunisia has an embassy in [[Kudanminami]], [[Chiyoda, Tokyo|Chiyoda]], [[Tokyo]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.embassypages.com/missions/embassy21325/|access-date=20 August 2015|title=Embassy of Tunisia in Tokyo, Japan|archive-date=21 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821043604/https://www.embassypages.com/missions/embassy21325/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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=== Americas ===
{{main|Japan–Latin America relations}}
Japan has continued to extend significant support to development and technical assistance projects in [[Latin America]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/oda/data/06ap_la01.html|title=外務省: ご案内- ご利用のページが見つかりません|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221181114/http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/oda/data/06ap_la01.html|archive-date=21 February 2015}}</ref>
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|{{flag|Argentina}}||<!--Date started-->3 February 1898
|See [[Argentina–Japan relations]]

Argentina maintains an embassy in Tokyo and Japan maintains an embassy in [[Buenos Aires]]. Diplomatic relations were restored by the signing of the [[San Francisco Peace Treaty]] in 1952. Argentine president [[Arturo Frondizi]] visited Japan in 1960, and subsequently [[bilateral trade]] and Japanese investment into Argentina have increased in importance. Japanese imports were primarily foodstuffs and raw materials, while exports were mostly machinery and finished products.

Members of the [[Imperial Family of Japan]] have visited Argentina on a number of occasions, including [[Prince Takamado|Prince and Princess Takamado]] in 1991, [[Emperor Akihito|Emperor and Empress Akihito]] in 1997 and [[Prince Akishino|Prince and Princess Akishino]] in 1998. Argentine President [[Raúl Alfonsín]] visited Japan in 1986, as did President [[Carlos Menem]] in 1990, 1993 and 1998.
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|{{flag|Barbados }}||29 August 1967<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Barbados–Japan relations]]

Japan was accredited to Barbados from its embassy in [[Port of Spain]] ([[Trinidad and Tobago]]) and an honorary consulate in [[Bridgetown]]. Since January 2016, Japan opened a new embassy directly in Bridgetown, Barbados.  Barbados is represented towards Japan through a non-resident ambassador in Bridgetown.
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|{{flag|Bolivia}}||<!--Date started-->3 April 1914||See [[Bolivia–Japan relations]]

* Bolivia has an embassy in Tokyo.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ebja.jp/ |title=Embassy of Bolivia in Tokyo |access-date=18 August 2018 |archive-date=11 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811211145/http://ebja.jp/ |url-status=usurped }}</ref>
* Japan has an embassy in [[La Paz]] and a consular office in [[Santa Cruz de la Sierra]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bo.emb-japan.go.jp/ |title=Embassy of Japan in La Paz |access-date=18 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828065624/http://www.bo.emb-japan.go.jp/ |archive-date=28 August 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* There are around 15,000 Bolivians who are of Japanese descent. (See also [[Japanese Bolivians]])
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|{{flag|Brazil }}||<!--Date started-->1895||See [[Brazil–Japan relations]]

* Brazil has an embassy in Tokyo and consulates-general in [[Hamamatsu]] and [[Nagoya]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://toquio.itamaraty.gov.br/pt-br/|title=Página Inicial|website=toquio.itamaraty.gov.br|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330185838/http://toquio.itamaraty.gov.br/pt-br/|archive-date=30 March 2018}}</ref>
* Japan has an embassy in [[Brasília]] and consulates-general in [[Belém]], [[Curitiba]], [[Manaus]], [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[São Paulo]] and consular offices in [[Recife]] and [[Porto Alegre]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.br.emb-japan.go.jp/itprtop_pt/index.html|title=Embaixada do Japão no Brasil|website=www.br.emb-japan.go.jp|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430133937/http://www.br.emb-japan.go.jp/itprtop_pt/index.html|archive-date=30 April 2018}}</ref>
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|{{flag|Canada }}||21 January 1928<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Canada–Japan relations]]

Diplomatic relations between both countries officially began in 1950 with the opening of the Japanese consulate in [[Ottawa]]. In 1929, Canada opened its Tokyo [[legation]], the first in Asia;<ref>Ambassade du Japon au Canada: [http://www.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/canada_f/80e%20anniversaire/Index.html  ''80ième anniversaire des relations diplomatiques nippo-canadiennes.''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501200418/http://www.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/canada_f/80e%20anniversaire/Index.html |date=1 May 2008 }}</ref> and in that same year, Japan its Ottawa consulate to legation form.<ref name="mofa1">Foreign Ministry of Japan: [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/n-america/canada/episode.html#4  ''Episodes in Japan–Canada Relations.''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704194958/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/n-america/canada/episode.html |date=4 July 2013 }}</ref>

Some Canadian–Japanese contacts predate the mutual establishment of permanent legations.  The first known Japanese immigrant to Canada, Manzo Nagano, landed in New Westminster, British Columbia in 1877.<ref>Ambassade du Japon au Canada: [http://www.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/canada_f/80e%20anniversaire/80ans_dhistoire.html  ''80 années d'histoire, Contact initial''.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612081458/http://www.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/canada_f/80e%20anniversaire/80ans_dhistoire.html |date=12 June 2008 }}</ref> Japan's consulate in Vancouver was established in 1889, 40 years before its embassy was opened in Ottawa in 1929.<ref>Numata, Sadaaki. [http://www.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/canada_e/Ambassador/Speeches/bc-cjs.html  "Japan–Canada Partnership from a Pacific Perspective,"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20110716091151/http://www.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/canada_e/Ambassador/Speeches/bc-cjs.html |date=16 July 2011 }} Embassy of Japan in Canada. 18 October 2005.</ref>

Canadians G. G. Cochran helped in founding [[Doshisha University]] in Kyoto, and Davidson McDonald helped in establishing [[Aoyama Gakuin University]] in Tokyo.<ref name="mofa1"/>

In the [[1923 Great Kantō earthquake]], a Canadian steamship, the [[RMS Empress of Australia (1919)|RMS ''Empress of Australia'']] and her captain, [[Samuel Robinson (sea captain)|Samuel Robinson]] achieved international acclaim for stalwart rescue efforts during the immediate aftermath of that disaster.<ref name="nyt1958">[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A11FB3D59127A93C5A91782D85F4C8585F9&scp=3&sq=samuel+robinson&st=p  "Capt. Samuel Robinson, Who Won Fame For Rescue Work in Jap Quake, Dies,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214152308/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A11FB3D59127A93C5A91782D85F4C8585F9&scp=3&sq=samuel+robinson&st=p |date=14 December 2013 }} ''New York Times''. 7 September 1958.</ref>

Canadian military attaché [[Herbert Cyril Thacker]] served in the field with Japanese forces in the [[Russo-Japanese War]] (1904–05), for which the Japanese government awarded him the [[Order of the Sacred Treasure|Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=article&no=8245|title=Article|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403071833/http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=article&no=8245|archive-date=3 April 2012}}</ref> and the Japanese War medal for service during that campaign.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/prominentpeopleo00stjouoft|title=Prominent people of the Maritime Provinces [in business and professional life]|date=15 November 1922|publisher=St. John, N.B., Canadian Publicity Co., J. [and] A. McMillan, Pr.|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

Canada and Japan have had diplomatic relations since 1928. Both countries are characterized by their active role in the Asia-Pacific community, as well as a relationship consisting of important economic, political, and socio-cultural ties. As major international donors, both Canada and Japan are strongly committed to promoting human rights, sustainable development and peace initiatives.

Canada–Japan relations are underpinned by their partnership in multilateral institutions: the G-7/8; the United Nations; the [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]], the Quad (Canada, the European Union, Japan and the United States), and by their common interest in the Pacific community, including participation in the [[Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation]] forum (APEC) and the [[ASEAN Regional Forum]] (ARF).

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited Canada in 2009.<ref>Nishida, Tsuneo. [http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=ba6f2d48-96cf-447b-b426-05782e47b7b9  "Toyako Summit identified a range of global challenges,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105012758/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=ba6f2d48-96cf-447b-b426-05782e47b7b9 |date=5 November 2012 }} ''The Gazette'' (Montreal). 4 August 2008.</ref>
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|{{flag|Chile}}||{{dts|format=dmy|1897|9|25}}||See [[Chile–Japan relations]]
*Chile and Japan established diplomatic relations on 25 September 1897. During [[World War II]], relations between both countries were severed. Chilean President [[Juan Antonio Ríos]] suspended relations with Japan on 20 January 1943 and in February 1945, he declared a "state of belligerancy". Finally, on 12 April 1945, Chile declared war against Japan. Relations were re-established on 7 October 1952 after the signing of [[San Francisco Peace Treaty]].
*Japan has an embassy in [[Santiago de Chile]]
*Chile has an embassy and a consulate-general in Tokyo and three honorary consulates in [[Osaka]], [[Sapporo]] and [[Nagasaki]].
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|{{flag|Colombia}}||<!--Date started-->25 May 1908||See [[Colombia–Japan relations]]

The relationship was officially established in 1908, only interrupted between 1942 and 1954 with the surge of World War II. Relations are mostly based on commercial trade that has favored Japan interests such as Colombian coffee (which Japan imports a lot), cultural exchanges and technological and philanthropic aid to Colombia.<ref>{{in lang|es}} [http://es.colombiaembassy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=91&Itemid=68 Colombian embassy in Japan] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070903195855/http://es.colombiaembassy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=91&Itemid=68 |date=3 September 2007 }}</ref>
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|{{flag|Cuba}}||{{dts|format=dmy|1929|12|21}}||See [[Cuba–Japan relations]]
Cuba and Japan established diplomatic relations on 21 December 1929.
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|{{flag|Ecuador}}
||<!--Dae started-->26 August 1918||See [[Ecuador–Japan relations]]
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|{{flag|Mexico }}||30 November 1888<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–Mexico relations]]

The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation concluded in 1888 between Japan and [[Mexico]] was the nation's first "equal" treaty with any country;<ref name="mofa-Mexico">Ministry of Foreign Affairs: [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/mexico/index.html  ''Japan–Mexico Foreign Relations''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521173824/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/mexico/index.html |date=21 May 2009 }}</ref> which overshadows [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]'s pre-[[Edo period]] initiatives which sought to establish official relations with the [[Viceroyalty of New Spain|New Spain]] in Mexico.<ref>Nutail, Zelia. (1906). ''The Earliest Historical Relations Between Mexico and Japan'', p.  2; [https://www.nytimes.com/1930/11/03/archives/japan-to-decorate-kind-alfonso-today-emperors-brother-nears-madrid.html?sq=order+of+the+chrysanthemum+&scp=4&st=p  "Japan to Decorate King Alfonso Today; Emperor's Brother Nears Madrid With Collar of the Chrysanthemum for Spanish King."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512090708/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40B1EFE3D5C117A93C1A9178AD95F448385F9&scp=4&sq=order+of+the+chrysanthemum+&st=p |date=12 May 2013 }} ''New York Times'', 3 November 1930.</ref>

In 1897, the 35 members of the so-called ''Enomoto'' Colonization Party settle in the Mexican state of Chiapas.  This was the first organized emigration from Japan to Latin America.<ref name = "mofa-Mexico"/>

President [[Álvaro Obregón]] was awarded Japan's [[Order of the Chrysanthemum]] at a special ceremony in Mexico City.  On 27 November 1924, Baron Shigetsuma Furuya, Special Ambassador from Japan to Mexico, conferred the honor on Obregón.  It was reported that this had been the first time that the Order had been conferred outside the Imperial family.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1924/11/28/archives/japan-decorates-obregon-order-of-the-chrysanthemum-conferred-by.html?sq=order+of+the+chrysanthemum+&scp=3&st=p "Japan Decorates Obregon; Order of the Chrysanthemum is Conferred by Special Ambassador,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111212054902/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20614FE3B5D17738DDDA10A94D9415B848EF1D3&scp=3&sq=order+of+the+chrysanthemum+&st=p |date=12 December 2011 }} ''New York Times'', 28 November 1924.</ref>

In 1952, Mexico becomes the second country to ratify the San Francisco Peace Treaty, preceded only by the United Kingdom.<ref name="mofa-Mexico"/>

Mexico and Japan on 17 September 2004, signed the "Agreement Between Japan and The United Mexican States for the Strengthening of The Economic Partnership." This was among the many historic steps led by Prime Minister [[Junichiro Koizumi]] to strengthen global economic stability.
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|{{flag|Paraguay }}||<!--Date started-->17 November 1919
|See [[Japan–Paraguay relations]]
* Commercial relations started prior to the establishment of diplomatic relations. Trade agreement was signed in Asunción on 17 November 1919.<ref>Text in ''League of Nations Treaty Series'', vol. 6, pp. 368–377.</ref>
* Japan has an embassy in [[Asunción]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.py.emb-japan.go.jp/|title=Embajada del Japon en la Republica del Paraguay – Bienvenidos|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150228110508/http://www.py.emb-japan.go.jp/|archive-date=28 February 2015}}</ref>
* Paraguay has an embassy in [[Tokyo]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.embapar.jp/|title=Embajada de la República del Paraguay en Japón|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222024522/http://www.embapar.jp/|archive-date=22 February 2015}}</ref>
* There are around 10,000 Paraguayans who are of Japanese descent, whose ancestors came to Paraguay between 1936 and 1959. (See also [[Japanese Paraguayans]])
* [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/paraguay/index.html Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Paraguay] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414051556/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/paraguay/index.html |date=14 April 2020 }}
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20071005200037/http://www.mre.gov.py/paginas/representaciones/Embajadas.asp?CodRepresentacion=47&tipo=1 Paraguayan Ministry of Foreign Relations about relations with Japan]}}
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|{{flag|Peru}}||<!--Date started-->21 August 1873||See [[Japan–Peru relations]]

* Japan has an embassy in [[Lima]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pe.emb-japan.go.jp/itprtop_es/index.html|title=Embajada del Japón en el Perú|website=www.pe.emb-japan.go.jp|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105070208/http://www.pe.emb-japan.go.jp/itprtop_es/index.html|archive-date=5 November 2017}}</ref>
* Peru has an embassy in Tokyo and a consulate-general in [[Nagoya]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://embajadadelperuenjapon.org|title=Slider Homepage – EMBAJADA DEL PERÚ EN JAPÓN|website=EMBAJADA DEL PERÚ EN JAPÓN|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329180006/http://embajadadelperuenjapon.org/|archive-date=29 March 2018}}</ref>
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|{{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}||<!--Date started-->May 1964||See [[Japan–Trinidad and Tobago relations]]
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|{{flag|United States }}||29 July 1858<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–United States relations]]
[[File:20220523 Fumio Kishida and Joe Biden 06.jpg|thumb|U.S. President [[Joe Biden]] and Japanese Prime Minister [[Fumio Kishida]] in 23 May 2022]]

The United States is Japan's closest ally, and Japan relies on the U.S. for [[National security of Japan|its national security]] to a high degree. As two of the world's top three economic powers, both countries also rely on close economic ties for their wealth, despite ongoing and occasionally acrimonious trade frictions.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Green |first1=Michael |title=The US-Japan Alliance: A Brief Strategic History |url=https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/the-us-japan-alliance-a-brief-strategic-history/ |work=The Association for Asian Studies |date=2007 |access-date=19 May 2022 |archive-date=27 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627092001/https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/the-us-japan-alliance-a-brief-strategic-history/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Don't take our allies for granted, even Japan |url=https://thehill.com/opinion/international/507545-dont-take-our-allies-for-granted-even-japan/ |work=The Hill |date=19 July 2020 |access-date=19 May 2022 |archive-date=19 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519110122/https://thehill.com/opinion/international/507545-dont-take-our-allies-for-granted-even-japan/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

After Japan's defeat in World War II, the Japanese-ruled [[Northern Mariana Islands]] came under control of the United States.<ref>{{cite news |title=History of the Northern Mariana Islands |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Northern-Mariana-Islands/German-and-Japanese-control |work=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=19 May 2022 |archive-date=19 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519110122/https://www.britannica.com/place/Northern-Mariana-Islands/German-and-Japanese-control |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>''The Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union With the United States of America'', {{USStatute|94|241|90|263|1976|03|24}}</ref>

Although [[Constitution of Japan|its constitution]] and [[Government of Japan|government]] policy preclude an offensive military role for Japan in international affairs, Japanese cooperation with the United States through the 1960 [[Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan|U.S.–Japan Security Treaty]] has been important to the peace and stability of [[East Asia]].<ref name=":0" /> Currently, there are domestic discussions about possible reinterpretation of [[Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution]].<ref name=":0" /> All postwar Japanese governments have relied on a close relationship with the United States as the foundation of their foreign policy and have depended on the mutual security treaty for strategic protection.<ref name=":0" />

The relationship probably hit a post-war nadir around the early 1990s, when Japan's "economic rise" was seen as a threat to American power.  Japan was the primary financier of the [[Gulf War]], yet received major criticism in some US circles for its refusal to commit actual military support.  Following the collapse of the so-called [[Bubble economy]] and the 1990s boom in the US, the Japanese economy was perceived as less of a threat to US interests.  Some observers still feel that Japan's willingness to deploy troops in support of current US operations in Iraq, as spearheaded by [[Junichiro Koizumi|Koizumi]] and the conservative [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]], reflects a vow not to be excluded from the group of countries the US considers friends.  This decision may reflect a [[realpolitik]] understanding of the threat Japan faces from a rapidly modernizing [[China]], which from its continued and indeed growing pattern of anti-Japanese [[Demonstration (people)|demonstrations]] reveals the belief that old historical scores remain unsettled.
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|{{flag|Uruguay }}||<!--Date started-->24 September 1921
|See [[Japan–Uruguay relations]]
* Japan has an embassy in [[Montevideo]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uy.emb-japan.go.jp/|title=Bienvenidos a la pagina web de la Embajada del Japon en el Uruguay|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330161034/http://www.uy.emb-japan.go.jp/|archive-date=30 March 2015}}</ref>
* Uruguay has an embassy in Tokyo.
* There are several thousand people of [[Japanese people|Japanese descent]] living in Uruguay. (See also [[Japanese Uruguayans]])
* [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/uruguay/index.html Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Uruguay] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306215858/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/uruguay/index.html |date=6 March 2023 }}
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|{{flag|Venezuela }}||<!--Date started-->19 August 1938||See [[Japan–Venezuela relations]]

Formal diplomatic relations between the countries were established in August 1938.<ref name="Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan: Japan–Venezuelan relations ">{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/venezuela/index.html|title=Japan-Venezuela Relations|work=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221170813/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/venezuela/index.html|archive-date=21 February 2015}}</ref> Venezuela broke off diplomatic ties with Japan (and the other [[Axis powers]]) in December 1941, shortly after the Japanese [[attack on Pearl Harbor]].<ref name="VENEZUELA BREAKS WITH AXIS REGIMES; Move Hailed as Evidence of Nation's Faithfulness to American Obligations BRAZIL REAFFIRMS STAND Vargas Declares All Doubts Were Resolved by Attack on the United States, ''New York Times'', 1 Jan 1942">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/01/01/archives/venezuela-breaks-with-axis-regimes-move-hailed-as-evidence-of.html|title=VENEZUELA BREAKS WITH AXIS REGIMES - Move Hailed as Evidence of Nation's Faithfulness to American Obligations BRAZIL REAFFIRMS STAND Vargas Declares All Doubts Were Resolved by Attack on the United States - Article - NYTimes.com|date=1 January 1942|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512083514/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50C1FFA3C5D167B93C3A9178AD85F468485F9|archive-date=12 May 2013|work=The New York Times}}</ref>

In 1999, Venezuelan President [[Hugo Chávez]] made a three-day trip to Japan. He made another two-day trip in 2009, during which he met Prime Minister [[Tarō Asō]].

In February 2019, Japan recognized Venezuelan opposition leader [[Juan Guaidó|Juan Guaido]] as Venezuelan legitimate president.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/japan-recognizes-guaido-as-venezuelan-president/1397263|title=Japan recognizes Guaido as Venezuelan president|access-date=14 April 2021|archive-date=16 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716052633/https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/japan-recognizes-guaido-as-venezuelan-president/1397263|url-status=live}}</ref>
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=== Asia ===
<div style="font-size: 90%">
{| class="wikitable sortable floatright" style="width:360px; border:1px black; float:right; margin-left:1em;"
|+ style="background:#f99;" colspan="2"|Results of 2013 [[Pew Research Center]] poll<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/07/11/japanese-publics-mood-rebounding-abe-strongly-popular/ |title=Japanese Public's Mood Rebounding, Abe Highly Popular |format= |publisher=[[Pew Research Center]] |date=11 July 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130714131851/http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/07/11/japanese-publics-mood-rebounding-abe-strongly-popular/ |archivedate=14 July 2013 |accessdate= |language=}}</ref><br />Asia/Pacific views of Japan by country<br />(sorted by fav − unfav)
!Country polled !!<small> Positive</small> !! <small>Negative</small> !! <small>Neutral</small> !! <small>Pos − Neg</small>
|-
| {{flagcountry|People's Republic of China}}||{{Percentage bar|4|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||{{Percentage bar|90|c=#FF8080|width=50}}||6||<span style="color:red;">-86</span>
|-
| {{flagcountry|South Korea}}||{{Percentage bar|22|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||{{Percentage bar|77|c=#FF8080|width=50}}||1||<span style="color:red;">-55</span>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Pakistan}}||{{Percentage bar|51|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||{{Percentage bar|7|c=#FF8080|width=50}}||42||<span style="color:green;">44</span>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Philippines}}||{{Percentage bar|78|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||{{Percentage bar|18|c=#FF8080|width=50}}||4||<span style="color:green;">60</span>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Australia}}||{{Percentage bar|78|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||{{Percentage bar|16|c=#FF8080|width=50}}||6||<span style="color:green;">62</span>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Indonesia}}||{{Percentage bar|79|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||{{Percentage bar|12|c=#FF8080|width=50}}||9||<span style="color:green;">67</span>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Malaysia}}||{{Percentage bar|80|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||{{Percentage bar|6|c=#FF8080|width=50}}||14||<span style="color:green;">74</span>
|-
|}</div>

==== Southeast Asia ====
[[File:Embassy of Indonesia, in Tokyo 2024.jpg|thumb|Embassy of Indonesia in Japan]]
By 1990 Japan's interaction with the vast majority of Asia-Pacific countries, especially its burgeoning economic exchanges, was multifaceted and increasingly important to the recipient countries.<ref name=":1">{{citation-attribution|1={{cite encyclopedia|title=Japan: a country study|publisher=[[Federal Research Division]], [[Library of Congress]]|location=Washington, D.C.|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/91029874/|date=1992|editor-last=Dolan|editor-first=Ronald E.|edition=5th|pages=288, 407–410, 414|isbn=0-8444-0731-3|oclc=24247433|access-date=29 September 2021|archive-date=29 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729190534/https://www.loc.gov/item/91029874/|url-status=live}}|editor-last2=Worden|editor-first2=Robert L.}}</ref> The developing countries of the [[Association of Southeast Asian Nations]] (ASEAN) regarded Japan as critical to their development. Japan's aid to the ASEAN countries totaled US$1.9 billion in Japanese fiscal year (FY) 1988 versus about US$333 million for the [[United States]] during U.S. FY 1988.<ref name=":1" /> As of the late 1980s, Japan was the number one foreign investor in the ASEAN countries, with cumulative investment as of March 1989 of about US$14.5 billion, more than twice that of the United States.<ref name=":1" />{{Update inline|date=September 2021}} Japan's share of total foreign investment in ASEAN countries in the same period ranged from 70 to 80 percent in [[Thailand]] to 20 percent in [[Indonesia]].<ref name=":1" />

In the late 1980s, the Japanese government was making a concerted effort to enhance its diplomatic stature, especially in Asia.<ref name=":1" /> [[Toshiki Kaifu]]'s much publicized spring 1991 tour of five Southeast Asian nations—[[Malaysia]], [[Brunei]], Thailand, [[Singapore]], and the [[Philippines]]—culminated in a 3 May major foreign policy address in Singapore, in which he called for a new partnership with the ASEAN and pledged that Japan would go beyond the purely economic sphere to seek an "appropriate role in the political sphere as a nation of peace."<ref name=":1" /> As evidence of this new role, Japan took an active part in promoting negotiations to resolve the [[Cambodia]]n conflict.<ref name=":1" />

In 1997, the ASEAN member nations and the People's Republic of China, South Korea and Japan agreed to hold yearly talks to further strengthen regional cooperation, the [[ASEAN Plus Three]] meetings. In 2005 the ASEAN plus Three countries together with [[India]], [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] held the inaugural [[East Asia Summit]] (EAS).

==== South Asia ====
In [[South Asia]], Japan's role is mainly that of an aid donor.<ref name=":1" /> Japan's aid to seven South Asian countries totaled US$1.1 billion in 1988.<ref name=":1" />{{Update inline|date=September 2021}} Except for [[Pakistan]], which received heavy inputs of aid from the United States, all other South Asian countries received most of their aid from Japan as of the early 1990s.<ref name=":1" />{{Update inline|date=September 2021}} Four South Asian nations—[[India]], Pakistan, [[Bangladesh]], and [[Sri Lanka]]—are in the top ten list of Tokyo's aid recipients worldwide as of the early 1990s.<ref name=":1" />{{Update inline|date=September 2021}} A point to note is that Indian Government has received no aid since the 2004 Tsunami that struck India but Indian registered NGOs look to Japan for much investment in their projects.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/the-evolution-of-india-s-pragmatic-policy-on-foreign-aid-101625491331811-amp.html | title=The evolution of India's pragmatic policy on foreign aid | work=Hindustan Times | date=5 July 2021 }}</ref>

Prime Minister [[Toshiki Kaifu]] signaled a broadening of Japan's interest in South Asia with his swing through the region in April 1990.<ref name=":1" /> In an address to the [[Indian parliament]], Kaifu stressed the role of free markets and democracy in bringing about "a new international order," and he emphasized the need for a settlement of the [[Kashmir conflict|Kashmir territorial dispute]] between India and Pakistan and for [[economic liberalization]] to attract foreign investment and promote dynamic growth.<ref name=":1" /> To India, which was very short of hard currency, Kaifu pledged a new concessional loan of ¥100 billion (about US$650 million) for the coming year.<ref name=":1" />

Japan’s engagement with the Middle East region reflects a sophisticated, multi-dimensional approach that has evolved since the 1973 oil crisis. Initially driven by energy security concerns, Japan’s strategy now includes economic partnerships, cultural exchanges, and political collaboration. By strengthening ties with both energy-exporting nations like Saudi Arabia and non-energy-focused countries such as Egypt, Japan has built a network of interdependence that extends beyond oil to broader strategic and cultural dimensions.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nakamura |first1=Satoru |last2=Wright |first2=Steven |title=Japan and the Middle East |chapter=A Conceptualisation of Japan’s Relations with the Middle East |series=Contemporary Gulf Studies |date=2023 |publisher=Springer Nature Singapore |pages=12–20 |doi=10.1007/978-981-19-3459-9_1 |isbn=978-981-19-3458-2 |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3459-9_1}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="width:100%; margin:auto;" 
! scope="col" width="15%"| Country
! scope="col" width="12%"| Formal relations began
! scope="col"| Notes
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|{{flag|Afghanistan }}||19 November 1930<ref name="mfat" >mfat</ref>||See [[Afghanistan–Japan relations]]

Afghan–Japanese relations have existed as far back as [[World War II]], and have been mainly positive. The Japanese government in 1974 started feasibility study under [[grant aid]] to develop and built [[television in Afghanistan]].
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|{{flag|Azerbaijan}}||<!--Date started-->27 January 1992||See [[Azerbaijan–Japan relations]]
* Azerbaijan has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Baku]].
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|{{flag|Bahrain}}||<!--Date started-->15 May 1974||See [[Bahrain–Japan relations]]
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|{{flag|Bangladesh }}||February 1972<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Bangladesh–Japan relations]]
Bangladeshi–Japanese relations were established in February 1972.<ref name="JAMOFA">{{Cite web|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs|location=Japan|title=Japan–Bangladesh Relations|date=March 2008|access-date=9 April 2008|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/bangladesh/index.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214090204/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/bangladesh/index.html|archive-date=14 February 2008}}</ref> Japan is Bangladesh's 11th-largest export market; imports from Bangladesh make up 26% of all Japanese imports from the [[least developed country|least developed countries]], second only to those from [[Cambodia]]. Common imports from Bangladesh to Japan include leather goods, ready-made garments, and shrimp.<ref name="Matin">{{Cite book|contribution=East Asian Security: A Bangladesh Perspective|last=Abdul Matin|first=Muhammad|pages=504–528|title=Changing Security Dynamic in Eastern Asia: Focus on Japan|editor1-last=Sisodia|editor1-first=N. S.|editor2-last=Naidu|editor2-first=G. V. C.|publisher=Bibliophile South Asia|year=2005|isbn=978-81-86019-52-8}}</ref> By 2004, Japan had become Bangladesh's fourth-largest source of [[foreign direct investment]], behind the [[United States]], [[United Kingdom]], and [[Malaysia]]. Japan's political goals in its relationship with Bangladesh include gaining support for their [[reform of the United Nations Security Council|bid to join]] the [[United Nations Security Council]], and securing markets for their finished goods. Japan is a significant source of [[development aid]] to Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Japan's Political and Economic Goals in Bangladesh|journal=Asian Affairs|volume=27|issue=4|pages=41–50|date=October–December 2005|last=Ashrafur Rahman|first=Syed|url=http://www.cdrb.org/journal/2005/4/3.pdf|access-date=9 April 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528063908/http://www.cdrb.org/journal/2005/4/3.pdf|archive-date=28 May 2008}}</ref>
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|{{flag|Bhutan }}||28 March 1986<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Bhutan–Japan relations]]
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|{{flag|Brunei }}||2 April 1984<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Brunei–Japan relations]]

Brunei has an embassy in Tokyo, and Japan has an embassy in [[Bandar Seri Begawan]].<ref name="bj">{{cite web|url=http://www.mofat.gov.bn/index.php/bilateral-relations/item/71 |title=Brunei-Japan Relations |publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Brunei)]] |access-date=16 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222051946/http://www.mofat.gov.bn/index.php/bilateral-relations/item/71 |archive-date=22 February 2014  }}</ref> Relations has been established since 2 April 1984.<ref name="bj"/>
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|{{flag|Cambodia }}||1953<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Cambodia–Japan relations]]

Japan has an embassy in [[Phnom Penh]]. Trade is sizable between the two countries:
*Japan to Cambodia: 14.0 billion yen (2006)
*Cambodia to Japan: 9.5 billion yen (2006)

Japanese investment in Cambodia includes [[Phnom Penh Commercial Bank]], a joint venture of Hyundai Switzerland and Japanese [[SBI Group]], opened in 2008. Japan remains Cambodia's top donor country providing some US$1.2 billion in total overseas development assistance (ODA) during the period since 1992.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.japaninc.com/mgz_september_2008_business-in-cambodia |title=Business in Cambodia &#124; Japan – Business People Technology |publisher=japaninc.com |date=31 August 2008 |access-date=19 September 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927025300/http://www.japaninc.com/mgz_september_2008_business-in-cambodia |archive-date=27 September 2011  }}</ref>
In 2006, Japanese and Cambodian governments signed an agreement outlining a new Japanese aid program worth US$59 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/component/option,com_jcs/Itemid,52/crestrictid,7145/task,add/|title=Search|work=Phnom Penh Post|access-date=21 February 2015}}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The Japanese Government has provided significant assistance for [[demining]] and education.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.embassyofcambodia.org/Information_Bulletin_2.pdf  |title=Information Bulletin issued by Royal Embassy of Cambodia in Washington D.C. |volume=2|date=22 March 2006 |website=embassyofcambodia.org  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707090213/http://www.embassyofcambodia.org/Information_Bulletin_2.pdf |archive-date=7 July 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/6/30/Japan-aids-cambodian-mine-clearance/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070623113212/http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/6/30/Japan-aids-cambodian-mine-clearance/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 June 2007 |title=Antara News  |publisher=Antara.co.id |date=1 January 1970 |access-date=19 September 2011 }}</ref>
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160518234123/http://www.kh.emb-japan.go.jp/index-e.htm Japanese embassy in Cambodia]}}
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|{{flag|China }}||1972<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[China–Japan relations]]
[[File:Embassy of Japan in Beijing, China.jpg|thumb|Embassy of Japan in Beijing]]
During the [[Meiji period|Meiji Era]], China was one of the first countries to experience the effects of [[Japanese nationalism|Japanese Imperialism]]. After the establishment of the People's Republic of [[China]] (PRC) in 1949, relations with Japan changed from hostility and an absence of contact to cordiality and extremely close cooperation in many fields. During the 1960s the two countries resumed trade for the first time since World War II under the Liao–Takasaki Agreement. On 29 September 1972, Japan and China signed a treaty establishing diplomatic relations between the states. The 1990s led to an enormous growth in China's economic welfare. Trade between Japan and China was one of the many reasons China was able to grow in the double-digit rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Japan was in the forefront among leading industrialized nations in restoring closer economic and political relations with China. China and Japan's bilateral relationship has often been referred to as "politically cold and economically warm". The two countries have been able to keep their political issues separate in hopes of being able to continue to benefit from each other's economic success and prosperity. Resumption of Japan's multibillion-dollar investments to China and increased visits to China by Japanese officials, culminating in the October 1992 visit of Emperor [[Akihito]], gave a clear indication that Japan considered closer ties with China in its economic and strategic interest. Despite a 1995 apology regarding World War II by Japanese Prime Minister [[Tomiichi Murayama]], tensions still remain, mostly because many Chinese feel there is a lack of true remorse for wartime crimes committed by Imperial Japanese forces.  This has been reinforced by numerous visits to the [[Yasukuni Shrine]] by Japanese Prime Ministers, attempts to revise textbooks by Japanese nationalists, the continued dispute over Japan's atrocities in the [[Nanking Massacre]], and the resurgence of nationalism and militarism in Japan. The resurgence of Japan's nationalism has changed widespread feelings about China among citizens. During the post-war period, many Japanese people acknowledged and appreciated China's influence on their culture and the country's achievements. However, the approval rate of the country began to go down due to a lack of acknowledgement of Japan's past economic contribution to China's development as China grew to be one of the largest economies in east Asia, China's military and economic growth and what that would mean for the possibility of growth in Japan, and the 2004 anti-Japanese nationalism protests in China, Relations between China and Japan have also been strained due to territory politics such as fights over The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands continue. Because the two are highly engaged economically, the countries try to keep their issues at bay but, as social disapproval increases and disagreements drawn out, it is possible the relationship between the two countries could shift.
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|{{flag|India }}||28 April 1952<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[India–Japan relations]]

[[File:Trilateral exercise 2007.jpg|thumb|[[Indian Navy|Indian]], Japanese and US naval warships take part in a military exercise near [[Bōsō Peninsula]] in 2007. India is one of the only three nations with whom Japan has a security pact, the other two being the United States and Australia.<ref name="blogs.reuters.com">{{cite news | url=http://blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/2008/10/25/india-japan-in-security-pact-a-new-architecture-for-asia/ | work=Reuters | title=India, Japan in security pact; a new architecture for Asia? | date=25 October 2008 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301213612/http://blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/2008/10/25/india-japan-in-security-pact-a-new-architecture-for-asia/ | archive-date=1 March 2010 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>]]
Throughout history, bilateral foreign relations between Japan and India have generally been friendly and strong. In December 2006, Prime Minister Singh's visit to Japan culminated in the signing of the "Joint Statement Towards Japan–India Strategic and Global Partnership".

According to Prime Minister [[Shinzō Abe]]'s ''arc of freedom'' theory, it is in Japan's interests to develop closer ties with India, world's most populous democracy, while its relations with [[China]] remain chilly. To this end, Japan has funded many infrastructure projects in India, most notably in [[New Delhi]]'s metro subway system and [[Maruti Suzuki|Maruti]].India and Japan have signed a deal to build high speed trains in India<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=706&language_id=1|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024174544/http://pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=706&language_id=1|url-status=dead|title=India Rediscovering East Asia, PINR|archivedate=24 October 2007}}</ref>

Indian applicants have been welcomed in 2006–07 to the [[JET Programme]], starting with just one slot available in 2006 and 41 in 2007.

India and Japan signed a security cooperation agreement in which both will hold military exercises, police the Indian Ocean and conduct military-to-military exchanges on fighting [[terrorism]], making India one of only three countries, the others being the United States and Australia, with which Japan has such a security pact.
Japan is aiding India in building the [[High-speed rail in India|High Speed Railway]] by giving India money and there are plans to export Japan's [[Shinkansen]] to India.
<ref name="blogs.reuters.com"/> There are 25,000 Indians in Japan as of 2008.
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|{{flag|Indonesia }}||20 January 1958<ref name="kedubesjepang" />||See [[Indonesia–Japan relations]]

* [[Indonesia]] has an embassy in Tokyo and a consulate in [[Osaka]]. Japan has an embassy in [[Jakarta]], consulate-general in [[Consulate-General of Japan, Surabaya|Surabaya]], and consulates in [[Medan]], [[Denpasar]], [[Makassar]].
* Japan is Indonesia's largest export partner.
* Both countries are members of the [[G20 major economies]] and [[APEC]].
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|{{flag|Iran}}||<!--Date started-->1878||See [[Iran–Japan relations]]
Japan's foreign policy towards and investments in Iran have historically been dominated by the desire to secure reliable energy supplies; Iran is Japan's third-largest oil supplier after [[Saudi Arabia]] and the [[United Arab Emirates]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1615&CFID=32052905&CFTOKEN=39775290&jsessionid=9a30d4c02e6c7831342b|publisher=Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania|title=Japan Strives to Balance Energy Needs with World Politics|date=26 November 2006|access-date=8 August 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604235913/http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1615&CFID=32052905&CFTOKEN=39775290&jsessionid=9a30d4c02e6c7831342b|archive-date=4 June 2011}}</ref> Iran and Japan signed a visa-free travel arrangement in 1974, but it was terminated in April 1992 due to large-scale illegal [[Iranians in Japan|Iranian migration to Japan]].<ref>{{cite conference|title=Chapter III, Section 6: The Middle East|book-title=Diplomatic Bluebook: Japan's Diplomatic Activities|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan|url=http://www.mofa.jp/policy/other/bluebook/1992/1992-3-6.htm|year=1992|access-date=7 August 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928085544/http://www.mofa.jp/policy/other/bluebook/1992/1992-3-6.htm|archive-date=28 September 2007}}</ref> Iran and Japan also cooperate on regional foreign policy issues in the [[Middle East]], such as the [[reconstruction of Afghanistan]] and the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200205/05/eng20020505_95173.shtml|work=People's Daily|title=Iran, Japan Ready to Cooperate in Afghan, Palestinian Issues|date=5 May 2002|access-date=7 August 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228060659/http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200205/05/eng20020505_95173.shtml|archive-date=28 February 2008}}</ref> Since 2004, Japan has been working on developing Iran's largest on-shore oil field, located at [[Azadegan oil field|Azadegan]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-18/0609159288125734.htm|title=Japan ready for talks with Iran on lucrative Azadegan oil venture|publisher=Islamic Republic News Agency|date=15 September 2006|access-date=7 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930235416/http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-18/0609159288125734.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=30 September 2007}}</ref>
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|{{flag|Israel}}||<!--Date started-->15 May 1952
|See [[Israel–Japan relations]]

The Japanese government refrained from appointing a Minister Plenipotentiary to Israel until 1955. Relations between the two states were distant at first, but after 1958, as demand no break occurred. This had been at the same time that [[OPEC]] had imposed an oil embargo against several countries, including Japan.

Recently ties between Israel and Japan have strengthened significantly, with many mutual investments between the two nations. Japanese prime minister [[Shinzō Abe|Shinzo Abe]] visited [[Israel]] twice – once in 2015<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-strictly-business-for-shinzo-abe-in-israel-1.5364057|title = For Shinzo Abe in Israel, it's strictly business|newspaper = Haaretz|access-date = 14 April 2021|archive-date = 7 May 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220507152816/https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-strictly-business-for-shinzo-abe-in-israel-1.5364057|url-status = live}}</ref> and a second time in 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/PressRoom/2018/Pages/Japanese-PM-Shinz%C5%8D-Abe-arrives-in-Israel-on-an-official-visit-1-May-2018.aspx |title=Japanese PM Shinzō Abe arrives in Israel on an official visit |date=1 May 2018 |website=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel]] |access-date=14 April 2021 |archive-date=12 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412010718/https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/PressRoom/2018/Pages/Japanese-PM-Shinz%C5%8D-Abe-arrives-in-Israel-on-an-official-visit-1-May-2018.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>

* [[Israel]] has an embassy in [[Tokyo]].
* [[Japan]] has an embassy in [[Tel Aviv]] and an honorary consulate in [[Jerusalem]].
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|{{Flag|Jordan}}
|14 July 1954
|Both countries established diplomatic relations on 14 July 1954.<ref>{{Cite web |title=JO-JP Relations |url=https://jordanembassyjapan.com/jordan-japan-relations/ |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan - Tokyo, Japan |language=en-US |archive-date=12 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230612171705/https://jordanembassyjapan.com/jordan-japan-relations/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Japan is one of Jordan's biggest donors.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-09-03 |title=Japan loans Jordan $100 million for electricity reforms |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/japan-loans-jordan-100-mln-electricity-reforms-2023-09-03/ |access-date=2023-09-11 |archive-date=4 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904121847/https://www.reuters.com/world/japan-loans-jordan-100-mln-electricity-reforms-2023-09-03/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|{{flag|Laos }}||5 March 1955<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan-Laos relations]]
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|{{flag|Lebanon}}||<!--Date started-->November 1954
|
* The embassy of Japan in Lebanon is located in the [[Grand Serail|Serail Hill Area]], Army Street, Zokak El-Blat, [[Beirut]]. The current ambassador is Yoshihisa Kuroda.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lb.emb-japan.go.jp/index.htm|title=Embassy of Japan in Lebanon|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226210801/http://www.lb.emb-japan.go.jp/index.htm|archive-date=26 February 2015}}</ref>
* The embassy of Lebanon in Japan is located in [[Nagatachō, Tokyo|Nagatachō]], [[Chiyoda, Tokyo|Chiyoda]], [[Tokyo]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lebanon in Japan |url=https://diplomaticmonitor.org/c2c/LB-JP}}Lebanon in Japan</ref>
*[http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/middle_e/lebanon/index.html The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan: Japan–Lebanon Relations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709063932/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/middle_e/lebanon/index.html |date=9 July 2023 }}
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|{{flag|Malaysia }}||31 August 1957<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–Malaysia relations]]

Japan has an embassy in [[Kuala Lumpur]], and consulates in [[George Town, Penang|George Town]] and [[Kota Kinabalu]]. Malaysia maintains an embassy in Tokyo. The Japanese and Malaysian governments had visited each other on multiple occasions. Notable visits include the King of Malaysia visiting Japan in 2005 while in 2006, the Emperor and Empress of Japan visited Malaysia.
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|{{flag|Maldives }}||6 November 1967<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–Maldives relations]]
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|{{flag|Mongolia }}||1972<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Mongolia–Japan relations]]

* Japan has an embassy in [[Ulaanbaatar]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mn.emb-japan.go.jp/|title=Embassy of Japan in Mongolia|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221170114/http://www.mn.emb-japan.go.jp/|archive-date=21 February 2015}}</ref>
* Mongolia has an embassy in [[Tokyo]].
* [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/mongolia/index.html Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs- Mongolia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405203256/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/mongolia/index.html |date=5 April 2023 }}
* [http://www.mfa.gov.mn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=72&Itemid=81#yapon Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: list of bilateral treaties with Japan (in Mongolian)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151102144636/http://www.mfa.gov.mn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=72&Itemid=81#yapon |date=2 November 2015 }}
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|{{flag|Myanmar }}||1 December 1954<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–Myanmar relations]]
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|{{flag|Nepal }}||28 July 1956<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–Nepal relations]]

* Japan has an embassy in [[Kathmandu]].
* Nepal has an embassy in Tokyo.
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|{{flag|North Korea }}||<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–North Korea relations]]

No formal relations have been established between Japan and North Korea, though Japanese politicians have occasionally visited North Korea. Relations between Japan and North Korea have been historical hostile with incidents of confrontation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dw.com/en/north-koreans-in-japan-sense-growing-hostility/a-38609625|title=North Koreans in Japan sense growing hostility|first=Julian|last=Ryall|publisher=Deutsche Welle|date=27 April 2017|accessdate=11 April 2021|archive-date=30 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530060516/https://www.dw.com/en/north-koreans-in-japan-sense-growing-hostility/a-38609625|url-status=live}}</ref> Japan strongly supports the U.S. in its efforts to encourage [[North Korea]] to abide by the [[nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty]] and its agreements with the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] (IAEA).<ref name=":0" /> Despite 31 August 1998 North Korean missile test which overflew the Home Islands, Japan has maintained its support for the [[Korean Energy Development Organization]] (KEDO) and the [[Agreed Framework]], which seeks to freeze the North Korean nuclear program.<ref name=":0" /> The U.S., Japan, and South Korea closely coordinate and consult trilaterally on policy toward North Korea, at least on a government level.<ref name=":0" /> Japan has limited economic and commercial ties with North Korea. Japanese normalization talks halted when North Korea refused to discuss a number of issues with Japan.<ref name=":0" />
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|{{flag|Pakistan }}||28 April 1952<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–Pakistan relations]]

* There has been a regular exchange of high level visits between the two countries.
* The 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, jointly celebrated by the two countries in 2002, was a significant landmark in the history of this friendship.
* There are at least 10,000 Pakistanis residing in Japan.
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|{{flag|Philippines }}||July 1956<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan-Philippines relations]]

Relations between Japan and the Philippines were generally very strong since the end of [[World War II]]. It span a period from before the 16th century to the present. The Philippines gained independence from the United States in 1946. [[Diplomatic relations]] were re-established in 1956, when a [[war reparations]] agreement was concluded. By the end of the 1950s, Japanese companies and individual investors had begun to return to the Philippines and in 1975, Japan displaced the United States as the main source of investment in the Philippines.
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|{{flag|Qatar}}||<!--Date started-->1972||See [[Japan–Qatar relations]]
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|{{flag|Saudi Arabia}}||<!--Date started-->June 1955||See [[Japan–Saudi Arabia relations]]

Saudi Arabian – Japan relations were established during the past half a century. Saudi–Japanese relations are based on mutual respect and common interests in all areas.
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|{{flag|Singapore }}||26 April 1966<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–Singapore relations]]
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|{{flag|South Korea }}||December 1965<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–South Korea relations]]

Japan and [[South Korea]] have had many [[Japan–Korea disputes|disputes]]. Former South Korean President [[Roh Moo-hyun]] rejected a conference with the Japanese Prime Minister [[Junichiro Koizumi]] following his visits to the controversial [[Yasukuni Shrine]]. Many Koreans thought the presence of the Minister attending was a clear indication of the lack of respect and accountability Japan has done regarding the historical story of Japanese imperialism. Protests occurred in South Korea with citizens demanding the President to moblize and respond to the Japanese minister's offense and lack of remorse. Other long-running issues between the two countries include The Sea of Japan naming dispute, [[Liancourt Rocks dispute|territorial disputes]] over the [[Liancourt Rocks]] theses disputes are long lasting effects of nationalistic feelings that overtime leaders have been able to use as part of political agenda. For Koreans, feelings of hope are also intermingled with deep rooted hostility towards the Japanese neighbors who once occupied their country and who still claim the islets as theirs. Takeshima is "indisputably an inherent part of the territory of Japan, in light of historical facts and based on international law", says the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It adds that the Republic of Korea has been occupying Takeshima with "no basis in international law," and that it will continue to seek the settlement "in a calm and peaceful manner". Additionally, disagreement about whether or not the matter of World War II-era [[comfort women|forced prostitution]] has been resolved, so tensions between both countries have at times escalated situations surrounding elections and economic trade deals which have impacted both positive and negative interactions. While there has been compensation to the women and the families of the sex slave genuine polices to resolve the issue still arises during talks of cooperation especially since some are still living and the fact that many Japanese historical textbooks change the number of women or tend to ignore the very fact why the state is anti-military it was because of the abuses that occurred during the imperial times which makes cooperation between the two difficult. But with recent change in leadership and the objective to build up their trust we have seen talks of positive interactions moving forward. 
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|{{flag|Sri Lanka }}||1952<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–Sri Lanka relations]]

* Japan has an embassy in Colombo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lk.emb-japan.go.jp/|title=Embassy of Japan in Sri Lanka|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221170248/http://www.lk.emb-japan.go.jp/|archive-date=21 February 2015}}</ref>
* Sri Lanka has an embassy in Tokyo<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lankaembassy.jp/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051018040109/http://www.lankaembassy.jp/|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 October 2005|title=Sri Lanka Embassy Tokyo|access-date=21 February 2015}}</ref>
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|{{flag|Syria}}||<!--Date started-->December 1953
|See [[Japan–Syria relations]]
* Japan has an embassy in [[Damascus]]
* Syria has an [[Embassy of Syria in Tokyo]].
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|{{flag|Taiwan }}||1952<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–Taiwan relations]]

[[Taiwan]] was ceded to Japan in 1895 and was a major Japanese [[prefecture]] in [[World War II]].  Following the [[unconditional surrender]] of Japan to [[Allies of World War II|Allied Powers]] after World War II, Taiwan was relinquished by Japan as a stolen territory from China (like [[Manchukuo]]) by the [[Treaty of San Francisco|San Francisco Peace Treaty]] in 1951.  Current relations are guided by the 1972 [[Joint Communique of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China|Japan–PRC Joint Communique]]. Since the joint Communique, Japan has maintained non-governmental, working-level relations with Taiwan. Japan refers to the Republic of China on Taiwan with the neutral name "Taiwan."
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|{{flag|Thailand }}||26 September 1887<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–Thailand relations]]

Japan–Thailand relations span a period from the 17th century to the present. Contacts had an early start with Japanese trade on [[Red seal ships]] and the installation of [[Japanese people|Japanese]] communities on [[Thai people|Siamese]] soil, only to be broken off with Japan's period of [[sakoku|seclusion]]. Contacts resumed in the 19th century and developed to the point where Japan is today one of Thailand's foremost economic partners. Thailand and Japan share the distinction of never having lost sovereignty during the Colonial period.
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|{{flag|Timor-Leste}}||20 May 2002<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[East Timor–Japan relations]]
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|{{flag|Turkey }}||<!--Date started-->1890s||See [[Japan–Turkey relations]]

* First embassies were opened in 1925.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Ankara]] and a consulate-general in [[Istanbul]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tr.emb-japan.go.jp/|title=Japonya Büyükelçiliği|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221170725/http://www.tr.emb-japan.go.jp/|archive-date=21 February 2015}}</ref>
* Turkey has an embassy in Tokyo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.turkey.jp/english/indexeng.htm|title=Turkish Embassy Japan|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402051804/http://turkey.jp/english/indexeng.htm|archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref>
* There are 10,000 [[Turkish people|Turks]] living in Japan.
* {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20121221195136/http://www.mfa.gov.tr/turkey_s-political-relations-with-japan.en.mfa Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the relations with Japan]}}
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|{{flag|Vietnam }}||21 September 1973<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–Vietnam relations]]
Vietnamese–Japanese relations stretch back to at least the 16th century, when the two countries engaged in friendly trade.  Modern relations between the two countries are based on [[Vietnam]]'s developing economy and Japan's role as an investor and [[foreign aid]] donor.
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=== Europe ===<!--[[File:BlairKoizumi.jpg|thumb|Former [[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]] [[Junichiro Koizumi]] with former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Tony Blair]]. The UK is one of Japan's key partners.]]-->
[[File:34th G8 summit member 20080707.jpg|thumb|[[34th G8 summit]] ([[Tōyako, Hokkaidō|Tōyako Town]], [[Hokkaidō]])]] 
{{See also|Japan–European Union relations}}
In what became known as the [[Tenshō embassy]], the first ambassadors from Japan to European powers reached [[Lisbon]], Portugal in August 1584. From Lisbon, the ambassadors left for the [[Holy See|Vatican]] in Rome, which was the main goal of their journey. The embassy returned to Japan in 1590, after which time the four nobleman ambassadors were ordained by [[Alessandro Valignano]] as the [[History of Roman Catholicism in Japan|first Japanese Jesuit fathers]].

A second embassy, headed by [[Hasekura Tsunenaga]] and sponsored by [[Date Masamune]], was also a diplomatic mission to the Vatican. The embassy left 28 October 1613 from [[Ishinomaki, Miyagi|Ishinomaki]], [[Miyagi Prefecture]], in the northern [[Tōhoku region]] of Japan, where Date was ''[[daimyō]]''. It traveled to Europe by way of [[New Spain]], arriving in [[Acapulco]] on 25 January 1614, [[Mexico City]] in March, [[Havana]] in July, and finally [[Seville]] on 23 October 1614. After a short stop-over in France, the embassy reached Rome in November 1615, where it was received by [[Pope Paul V]]. After return travel by way of [[New Spain]] and the [[Philippines]], the embassy reached the harbor of [[Nagasaki]] in August 1620. While the embassy was gone, Japan had undergone significant change, starting with the 1614 [[Siege of Osaka|Osaka Rebellion]], leading to a 1616 decree from the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] that all interaction with non-Chinese foreigners was confined to [[Hirado]] and [[Nagasaki]]. In fact, the only western country that was allowed to trade with Japan was the Dutch Republic. This was the beginning of "[[sakoku]]", where Japan was essentially closed to the western world until 1854.

==== Modern era ====
[[File:Bratislava, the Japanese Embassy.JPG|thumb|left|Embassy of [[Japan]] in [[Bratislava]], Slovakia]]
The cultural and non-economic ties with [[Western Europe]] grew significantly during the 1980s, although the economic nexus remained by far the most important element of Japanese – West European relations throughout the decade.<ref name=":1" /> Events in West European relations, as well as political, economic, or even military matters, were topics of concern to most Japanese commentators because of the immediate implications for Japan.<ref name=":1" /> The major issues centered on the effect of the coming West European economic unification on Japan's trade, investment, and other opportunities in Western Europe.<ref name=":1" /> Some West European leaders were anxious to restrict Japanese access to the newly integrated [[European Union]], but others appeared open to Japanese trade and investment.<ref name=":1" /> In partial response to the strengthening economic ties among nations in Western Europe and to the United States–Canada–Mexico [[North American Free Trade Agreement]], Japan and other countries along the Asia-Pacific rim began moving in the late 1980s toward greater economic cooperation.<ref name=":1" />

On 18 July 1991, after several months of difficult negotiations, [[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]] [[Toshiki Kaifu]] signed a joint statement with the [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands|Dutch prime minister]] and head of the European Community Council, [[Ruud Lubbers]], and with the [[European Commission]] president, [[Jacques Delors]], pledging closer Japanese – European Community consultations on foreign relations, scientific and technological cooperation, assistance to developing countries, and efforts to reduce trade conflicts.<ref name=":1" /> [[Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] officials hoped that this agreement would help to broaden Japanese – European Community political links and raise them above the narrow confines of trade disputes.<ref name=":1" />

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! style="width:12%;"| Formal relations began
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|{{flag|Albania }}||<!--Date started-->April 1922; re-established in 1981
|See [[Albania–Japan relations]]

[[Albania]] and Japan resumed established diplomatic relations in March 1981.<ref>[http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/albania/index.html Japan-Albania Relations] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419204346/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/albania/index.html |date=19 April 2012 }}, Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan</ref>
* Albania has an embassy in [[Tokyo]].
* Japan has an embassy in [[Tirana]].
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|{{flag|Armenia }}||<!--Date started-->7 September 1992
|See [[Armenia–Japan relations]]

* Armenia has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Yerevan]].
* [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/armenia/index.html Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Armenia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409203701/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/armenia/index.html |date=9 April 2023 }}
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|{{flag|Austria }}||<!--Date started-->18 October 1869||See [[Austria–Japan relations]]

* Austria has an embassy in Tokyo and 4 honorary consulates (in [[Hiroshima]], [[Nagoya]], [[Osaka]] and [[Sapporo]]).
* Japan has an embassy in [[Vienna]] and an honorary consulate in [[Salzburg]].
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|{{flag|Belgium }}||<!--Date started-->1 August 1866||See [[Belgium–Japan relations]]
* Belgium has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Brussels]].
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|{{flag|Bulgaria }}||<!--Date started-->1890s||See [[Bulgaria–Japan relations]]

* Bulgaria has an embassy in Tokyo and an honorary consulate in [[Yokohama]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.bg/tokyo/|title=Министерство на външните работи|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218173322/http://mfa.bg/tokyo/|archive-date=18 February 2009}}</ref>
* Japan has an embassy in [[Sofia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bg.emb-japan.go.jp/bg/index.html|title=Посолство на Япония в Република България|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202060627/http://www.bg.emb-japan.go.jp/bg/index.html|archive-date=2 February 2015}}</ref>
* [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/bulgaria/index.html Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Bulgaria] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404202225/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/bulgaria/index.html |date=4 April 2023 }}
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|{{flag|Croatia }}||<!--Date started-->5 March 1992||See [[Croatia–Japan relations]]
* Croatia has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Zagreb]].
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|{{flag|Czech Republic }}||<!--Date started-->12 January 1920||See [[Czech Republic–Japan relations]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mzv.cz/tokyo/en/political_relations/political_relations_history_and_present/establishing_of_diplomatic_relations_and.html |title=Establishing of Diplomatic Relations and Interwar Development &#124; Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tokyo |publisher=Mzv.cz |date=20 October 2010 |access-date=19 September 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306051646/http://www.mzv.cz/tokyo/en/political_relations/political_relations_history_and_present/establishing_of_diplomatic_relations_and.html |archive-date=6 March 2012}}</ref> 

* The Czech Republic has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Prague]].
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|{{flag|Denmark }}||<!--Date started-->1867||See [[Denmark–Japan relations]]
* Denmark has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Copenhagen]].
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|{{flag|Estonia}}||<!--Data started-->26 January 1921;10 October 1991||See [[Estonia–Japan relations]]
* Estonia has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Tallinn]].
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|{{flag|European Union }}||<!--Date started-->1959||See [[Japan–European Union relations]]
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|{{flag|Finland }}||<!--Date started-->6 September 1919||See [[Finland–Japan relations]] 
* Finland has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Helsinki]].
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|{{flag|France }}||<!--Date started-->9 October 1858||See [[France–Japan relations]]

The history of {{nihongo| Franco–Japanese relations |日仏関係|Nichi-Futsu kankei}} goes back to the early 17th century, when a Japanese samurai and ambassador on his way to [[Rome]] landed for a few days in Southern [[France]], creating a sensation. France and Japan have enjoyed a very robust and progressive relationship spanning centuries through various contacts in each other's countries by senior representatives, strategic efforts, and cultural exchanges. 
* France has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Paris]].
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|{{flag|Georgia }}||<!--Date started-->3 August 1992||See [[Georgia–Japan relations]]
* Japan has extended [[foreign aid]] to Georgia for various economic and cultural development projects.
* The balance of trade between the two nations is heavily in favor of Japan, with Japan exporting automobiles and manufactured goods, and Georgia exporting food products and chemicals.
* Georgian President [[Eduard Shevardnadze]] made an official visit to Japan in March 1999 and President [[Mikheil Saakashvili]] visited Japan in March 2007.
* Since November 2006, Georgia has maintained an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Tbilisi]].
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080903230319/http://www.mfa.gov.ge/index.php?sec_id=371&lang_id=ENG Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the relations with Japan]}}
*[http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/georgia/index.html Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the relations with Georgia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606132414/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/georgia/index.html |date=6 June 2023 }}
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|{{flag|Germany }}||<!--Date started-->24 January 1861||See [[Germany–Japan relations]]
Regular meetings between the two countries have led to several cooperations. In 2004 [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)|German Chancellor]] [[Gerhard Schröder]] and [[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]] [[Junichiro Koizumi]] agreed upon cooperations in the assistance for reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/germany/summit0412/fs_iraq.html|title=Japanese–German Cooperation and Coordination in the Assistance for Reconstruction of Iraq|access-date=24 November 2008|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|date=9 November 2004|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090802225000/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/germany/summit0412/fs_iraq.html|archive-date=2 August 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/germany/summit0412/fs_afghanistan.html|title=Japanese–German Cooperation and Coordination in the Assistance for Reconstruction of Afghanistan|access-date=24 November 2008|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|date=9 November 2004|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803082530/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/germany/summit0412/fs_afghanistan.html|archive-date=3 August 2009}}</ref> the promotion of economic exchange activities,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/germany/summit0412/fs_eco_exc.html|title=Japanese–German Economic Exchanges|access-date=24 November 2008|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|date=9 November 2004|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803094058/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/germany/summit0412/fs_eco_exc.html|archive-date=3 August 2009}}</ref> youth and sports exchanges<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/germany/summit0412/fs_sports_exc.html|title=Japanese German Youth / Sports Exchange|access-date=24 November 2008|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|date=9 November 2004|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090802215301/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/germany/summit0412/fs_sports_exc.html|archive-date=2 August 2009}}</ref> as well as exchanges and cooperation in science, technology and academic fields.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/germany/summit0412/fs_cp_exc.html|title=Japanese–German Science, Technology and Academic Cooperation and Exchanges|access-date=24 November 2008|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|date=9 November 2004|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804145121/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/germany/summit0412/fs_cp_exc.html|archive-date=4 August 2009}}</ref>

* Germany has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Berlin]].
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|{{flag|Greece }}||<!--Date started-->June 1899||See [[Greece–Japan relations]]
There has been a [[Greece|Greek]] embassy in Tokyo since 1960, and a Japanese embassy in [[Athens]] since the same year, when it was decided to upgrade the Japanese Consulate which had opened in 1956. Since then the two countries have enjoyed excellent relations in all fields, and cooperate closely.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ypex.gov.gr/www.mfa.gr/en-US/Policy/Geographic+Regions/Asia+-+Oceania/Bilateral+Relations/Japan/|title=Ελληνική Δημοκρατία – Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717011254/http://www.ypex.gov.gr/www.mfa.gr/en-US/Policy/Geographic+Regions/Asia+-+Oceania/Bilateral+Relations/Japan/|archive-date=17 July 2011}}</ref>

* Greece has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Athens]].
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|{{flag|Holy See }}||<!--Date started-->March 1942||See [[Holy See–Japan relations]]

The first Papal visit to Japan took place in 1981. the present Apostolic Nuncio to Japan is [[Joseph Chennoth]] (since 2011) Japan first sent an ambassador, [[Ken Harada (diplomat)|Ken Harada]], to the Vatican during World War II.
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|{{flag|Hungary }}||<!--Date started-->1921||See [[Hungary–Japan relations]]

* Hungary has an embassy in Tokyo and two honorary consulates (in [[Hamamatsu]] and [[Osaka]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.hu/kulkepviselet/JP/en/mainpage.htm|title=Hungarian embassy in Tokyo|website=gov.hu|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505113935/http://www.mfa.gov.hu/kulkepviselet/JP/en/mainpage.htm|archive-date=5 May 2017}}</ref>
* Japan has an embassy in [[Budapest]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hu.emb-japan.go.jp/|title=在ハンガリー日本国大使館|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321165855/http://www.hu.emb-japan.go.jp/|archive-date=21 March 2015}}</ref>
* [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/hungary/index.html Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Hungary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306215636/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/hungary/index.html |date=6 March 2023 }}
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|{{flag|Iceland}}||<!--Date started-->8 December 1956||See [[Iceland–Japan relations]]

* Iceland has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Reykjavík]].
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|{{flag|Ireland}}||<!--Date started-->March 1957||See [[Ireland–Japan relations]]

* Ireland has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Dublin]].
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|{{flag|Italy}}||<!--Date started-->25 August 1866<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/italy/data.html|title=Japan-Italy Relations (Basic Data) &#124; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|access-date=14 December 2022|archive-date=14 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214170049/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/italy/data.html|url-status=live}}</ref>||See [[Italy–Japan relations]]

* Italy has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Rome]] and a consulate-general in [[Milan]].
* Foreign Affairs Ministers of both nation held informal talks on the margins of the G7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Tokyo in early November 2023.
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|{{flag|Kosovo}}||<!--Date started-->25 February 2009||See [[Japan–Kosovo relations]]

Japan [[International recognition of Kosovo|recognised]] it on 18 March 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2008/3/0318.html|title=Statement by Foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura on the Recognition of the Republic of Kosovo|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|date=18 March 2008|access-date=18 March 2008|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080321171414/http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2008/3/0318.html|archive-date=21 March 2008}}</ref> The first Ambassador of Japan to the Republic of Kosovo is Akio Tanaka. He is subordinate to the Japanese Embassy in [[Vienna]], Austria.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newkosovareport.com/200906231843/Politics/Japan–and-Kosovo-strengthen-diplomatic-ties.html|title=Japan and Kosovo strengthen diplomatic ties|publisher=New Kosova Report|date=23 June 2009|access-date=24 June 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051444/http://www.newkosovareport.com/200906231843/Politics/Japan%E2%80%93and-Kosovo-strengthen-diplomatic-ties.html|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>
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|{{flag|Latvia}}||<!--Data started-->10 October 1991||See [[Japan–Latvia relations]]
* Latvia has an embassy in Tokyo.<ref>{{cite web | title=Embassy of Latvia to Japan | url=https://www2.mfa.gov.lv/en/japan }}</ref>
* Japan has an embassy in [[Riga]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Vēstniecība &#124; Latvijas vēstniecība Japānā | url=https://www2.mfa.gov.lv/japan/vestnieciba }}</ref>
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|{{flag|Liechtenstein}}
|June 1996<ref name=":06">{{Cite web |title=Japan-Liechtenstein Relations |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/liechtenstein/data.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826160720/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/liechtenstein/data.html |archive-date=26 August 2022 |access-date=8 September 2022}}</ref>
|See [[Japan–Liechtenstein relations]]
* Japan has an honorary consulate in [[Schaan]].
* The two countries signed a tax treaty in 2012.<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |date=6 July 2012 |title=Signing of the Tax Information Exchange Agreement between the Government of Japan and the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2012/7/0706_01.html |access-date=3 November 2023 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |archive-date=3 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103192629/https://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2012/7/0706_01.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|{{flag|Lithuania }}||<!--Date started-->1919;10 October 1991||See [[Japan–Lithuania relations]]

* Japan has an embassy in Vilnius, established in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lt.emb-japan.go.jp/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619221424/http://www.lt.emb-japan.go.jp/|url-status=dead|title=Embassy of Japan in Lithuania|archivedate=19 June 2009|website=www.lt.emb-japan.go.jp}}</ref>
* In 1998, Lithuania has an embassy in Tokyo.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jp.mfa.lt/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303121706/http://jp.mfa.lt/|url-status=dead|title=Lietuvos Respublikos užsienio reikalų ministerija &#124; Lietuvos Respublikos užsienio reikalų ministerija|archivedate=3 March 2009}}</ref>
* Ambassador to Lithuania is Miyoko Akashi, ambassador to Japan is [[Dainius Kamaitis]].
* In 2007 the Emperor and Empress of Japan [[Akihito]] and [[Michiko]] paid an official visit in Lithuania.
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|{{flag|Luxembourg}}||<!--Date started-->||See [[Japan–Luxembourg relations]]

* Luxembourg has an embassy in Tokyo.<ref>https://tokyo.mae.lu/en.html</ref>
* Japan has an embassy in [[Luxembourg City]].<ref>https://embassies.net/japan-in-luxembourg/luxembourg</ref>
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|{{flag|Malta }}||<!--Date started-->||See [[Japan–Malta relations]]

* Malta has a consulate in Tokyo.
* Japan has a consulate in [[Valletta]].
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|{{flag|Moldova }}||<!--Date started-->16 March 1992||

* Japan has a non-resident ambassador in [[Ukraine]].
* Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova, [[Nicolae Tăbăcaru]] paid a visit to Japan from 31 January to 4 February 1999. It was a first official visit of a Cabinet Member of the Republic of Moldova to Japan. The visit has strengthened the friendly relations between Japan and the Republic of Moldova.
* Since 2000 Japan implements in Moldova the grant programme for the improvement of agriculture and private farming.
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080914191000/http://www.mfa.md/misiuni-diplomatice/ale-RM/ Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in China]}}
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20081005160104/http://www.mfa.md/ Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova]}}
* [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/moldova/index.html Japanese ministry of foreign affairs about Moldova] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709184342/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/moldova/index.html |date=9 July 2023 }}
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|{{flag|Montenegro}}||<!--Date started-->24 July 2006 ||See [[Japan–Montenegro relations]]

Japan recognised Montenegro on 16 June 2006 and established diplomatic relations on 24 July 2006. Montenegro had declared war on Japan in 1905 during the [[Russo-Japanese War]] and never signed a peace treaty until 2006, shortly before the opening of diplomatic relations. The war lasted for 101 years. Trade, mostly related to electronics, exports from Japan to Montenegro (163 million yen per annum) outweigh Japan's imports (2 million yen per annum).

* Japan is accredited to Montenegro from its embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
* Montenegro is accredited to Japan from its embassy in Beijing, China.
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|{{flag|Netherlands }}||<!--Date started-->1609||See [[Japan–Netherlands relations]]

The relations between Japan and the Netherlands after 1945 have been a triangular relationship. The invasion and [[Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies]] during World War II brought about the destruction of the colonial state in Indonesia, as the Japanese removed as much of the Dutch government as they could, weakening the post-war grip the Netherlands had over the territory. Under pressure from the United States, the Netherlands recognised Indonesian sovereignty in 1949 (see [[United States of Indonesia]]).

* Japan has an embassy in [[The Hague]].
* Netherlands has an embassy in Tokyo.
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|{{flag|Norway}}||<!--Date started-->1905–11||See [[Japan–Norway relations]]

* Japan has an embassy in [[Oslo]].
* Norway has an embassy in Tokyo.
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|{{flag|Poland}}||<!--Date started--> March 1919||See [[Japan–Poland relations]]
* Japan has an embassy in [[Warsaw]].
* Poland has an embassy in Tokyo 
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|{{flag|Portugal }}||<!--Date started-->3 August 1860||See [[Japan–Portugal relations]]
* Japan has an embassy in [[Lisbon]].
* Portugal has an embassy in Tokyo.
{{see also|Category:Japan–Portugal relations}}
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|{{flag|Romania }}||<!--Date started--> 18 June 1902||See [[Foreign relations of Romania#Asia: East Asia]]

* The first representation of Romania in Japan was opened in 1921.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The cultural and diplomatic relations between Romania and Japan. 1880-1920.|last=Flaviu Vasile|first=Rus|publisher=MEGA Publishing|year=2018|isbn=978-606-020-004-8|location=Cluj-Napoca|pages=18}}</ref> 
* Japan was represented in Romania through its embassy in [[Vienna]] ([[Austria]]).
* After [[World War II]], both states resumed their diplomatic relations in 1959.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Bucharest]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ro.emb-japan.go.jp/|title=Ambasada Japoniei in Romania|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221170951/http://www.ro.emb-japan.go.jp/|archive-date=21 February 2015}}</ref>
* Romania has an embassy in Tokyo and four honorary consulates (in [[Atami]], [[Osaka]], [[Nagoya]] and [[Yokohama]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tokyo.mae.ro/index.php?lang=en|title=AMBASADA ROMÂNIEI în Japonia|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221172453/http://tokyo.mae.ro/index.php?lang=en|archive-date=21 February 2015}}</ref>
* [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/romania/index.html Japanese Ministry of Foreign affairs about relations with Romania] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418162911/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/romania/index.html |date=18 April 2023 }}
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|{{flag|Russia }}||<!--Date started-->7 February 1855||See [[Japan–Russia relations]]

Japan's relations with [[Russia]] are hampered by the two sides' inability to resolve their territorial dispute over the four islands that make up the [[Kuril Island conflict|Northern Territories]] ([[Kuril Islands|Kuriles]]), which the Soviet Union seized towards the end of [[World War II]].<ref name=":0" /> The stalemate has prevented conclusion of a peace treaty formally ending the war.<ref name=":0" /> The dispute over the Kuril Islands exacerbated the Japan–Russo relations when the Japanese government published a new guideline for school textbooks on 16 July 2008 to teach Japanese children that their country has sovereignty over the Kuril Islands. The Russian public was outraged by the action the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|Foreign Minister of Russia]] criticized the action while reaffirming its sovereignty over the islands.<ref>[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/19/content_8571164.htm Russia hopes to solve territorial dispute with Japan by strengthening trust] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131116103740/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/19/content_8571164.htm |date=16 November 2013 }}, [[Xinhua News Agency]]. Retrieved 19 July 2008</ref>
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|{{flag|Serbia }}||<!--Date started--> reestablished in 1952||See [[Japan–Serbia relations]]

* Japan has an embassy in [[Belgrade]].
* Serbia has an embassy in Tokyo and an honorary consulate in [[Osaka]].
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|{{flag|Slovenia }}||<!--Date started-->12 October 1992
|
* Japan has an embassy in [[Ljubljana]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.si.emb-japan.go.jp/|title=Veleposlaništvo Japonske v Sloveniji|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220072217/http://www.si.emb-japan.go.jp/|archive-date=20 February 2015}}</ref>
* Slovenia has an embassy in Tokyo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tokyo.embassy.si/en|title=Veleposlaništvo RS Tokio|website=tokyo.embassy.si|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307025402/http://tokyo.embassy.si/en|archive-date=7 March 2009}}</ref>
* [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/slovenia/index.html Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Slovenia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418162650/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/slovenia/index.html |date=18 April 2023 }}
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|{{flag|Spain }}||<!--Date started-->First contact in 1584, officialized in 1868. Relations were broken on 11 April 1945 and reestablished in 1952
|See [[Japan–Spain relations]]
* Japan has an embassy in [[Madrid]] and consulates in [[Barcelona]] and [[Las Palmas]].
* Spain has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Since 1997, every year a Japan–Spain Symposium for the cultural exchange between the two countries is held.
* [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/spain/index.htmll Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Spain] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303193508/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/spain/index.htmll |date=3 March 2016 }}
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100907033453/http://www.es.emb-japan.go.jp/relaciones.htm Spanish Embassy in Tokyo about Spanish relations with Japan]}}
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|{{flag|Sweden }}||1868<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–Sweden relations]]

* Japan has an embassy in [[Stockholm]].
* Sweden has an embassy in Tokyo.
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|{{flag|Switzerland }}||<!--Date started-->6 February 1864||

* Japan has an embassy in [[Bern]] and a general consulate in [[Geneva]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ch.emb-japan.go.jp/|title=Japanische Botschaft in der Schweiz|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221055807/http://www.ch.emb-japan.go.jp/|archive-date=21 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geneve.ch.emb-japan.go.jp/|title=Consulat du Japon à Genève|access-date=21 February 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220070942/http://www.geneve.ch.emb-japan.go.jp/|archive-date=20 February 2015}}</ref>
* Switzerland has an embassy in Tokyo.
* [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/switzerland/index.html Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Switzerland] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406104054/https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/switzerland/index.html |date=6 April 2023 }}
* [http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/home/reps/asia/vjpn/biljap.html Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs about relations with Japan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005010345/http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/home/reps/asia/vjpn/biljap.html |date=5 October 2014 }}
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|{{flag|Ukraine }}||<!--Date started-->26 January 1992||See [[Japan–Ukraine relations]]

* Japan extended diplomatic recognition to the Ukrainian state on 28 December 1991, immediately after the breakup of the [[Soviet Union]]
* Ukraine maintains an embassy in Tokyo.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.mfa.gov.ua/japan/en/news/top.htm
 |title       = Ukrainian embassy in Tokyo
 |publisher   = Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
 |access-date  = 22 April 2009
 |url-status  = dead
 |archive-url  = https://archive.today/20121222115004/http://japan.mfa.gov.ua/ua
 |archive-date = 22 December 2012
 |df          = dmy-all
}}</ref>
* Japan maintains an embassy in [[Kyiv]].<ref>{{cite web 
 |url=http://www.ua.emb-japan.go.jp/E/Home-page/index_en.htm 
 |title=Embassy of Japan in Ukraine 
 |publisher=Embassy of Japan in Ukraine 
 |access-date=22 April 2009 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527012312/http://www.ua.emb-japan.go.jp/E/Home-page/index_en.htm 
 |archive-date=27 May 2009 
 }}</ref>
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|{{flag|United Kingdom }}||26 August 1858||See [[Japan–United Kingdom relations]]
[[File:DJ3A4533 (54150160089).jpg|thumb|right|[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom| British Prime Minister]] [[Keir Starmer]] with [[Prime Minister of Japan|Japanese Prime Minister]] [[Shigeru Ishiba]] at a [[2024 G20 Rio de Janeiro summit|G20 summit]] in Rio de Janeiro, November 2024.]]
Japan established [[Foreign relations of the United Kingdom|diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom]] in 26 August 1858.<ref name="britain"/>
*Japan maintains an [[Embassy of Japan, London|embassy]] in London.<ref>{{cite web|author=Diplomat Magazine|date=3 August 2020|url=https://diplomatmagazine.com/heads-of-mission/middle-east-asia/japan/|title=Japan|access-date=25 June 2025|website=Diplomat Magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250513004230/https://diplomatmagazine.com/heads-of-mission/middle-east-asia/japan/|archive-date=13 May 2025|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The United Kingdom is accredited to Japan through its [[Embassy of the United Kingdom, Tokyo|embassy]] in [[Tokyo]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/british-embassy-tokyo|title=British Embassy Tokyo|website=[[gov.uk|GOV.UK]]|access-date=13 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716235230/https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/british-embassy-tokyo|archive-date=16 July 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>

Both countries share common membership of [[Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership|CPTPP]], the [[G7]], the [[G20]], the [[International Criminal Court]], [[OECD]], the [[United Nations]], and the [[World Trade Organization]]. Bilaterally the two countries have a [[Japan–United Kingdom Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement|Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement]], a Double Taxation Convention,<ref>{{cite web|author=[[HM Revenue and Customs]]|date=16 February 2015|title=Japan: tax treaties|website=GOV.UK|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/japan-tax-treaties|access-date=16 March 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250408171823/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/japan-tax-treaties|archive-date=8 April 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> and a [[Reciprocal Access Agreement]].
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=== Oceania ===
{{See also|Japan–Oceania relations}}

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! style="width:12%;"| Formal relations began
!Notes
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|{{flag|Australia }}||1947<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Australia–Japan relations]]
[[File:Katsuya Okada Hillary Rodham Clinton and Stephen Smith 20090921.jpg|thumb|Japanese Foreign Minister [[Katsuya Okada]] (left), U.S. Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton]] (center) and Australian Foreign Minister [[Stephen Smith (Australian politician)|Stephen Smith]] (right), in 2009]]

[[Australia]]–Japan relations have generally warm as well as acknowledged mutuality of strong interests, beliefs and friendship, and has since continued to grow strongly over the years.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} However, memories of [[World War II]] linger<ref name=":1" /> among the older members of the Australian public,{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} as does a contemporary fear of Japanese economic domination over countries, particularly Australia,<ref name=":1" /> although such fears have fallen off in response to Japan's economic stagnation in the 1990s.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} At the same time, government and business leaders see Japan as a vital export market and an essential element in Australia's strong future growth and prosperity in the [[Asia-Pacific]] region.<ref name=":1" />

Australia is also a major source of food and raw materials for Japan.<ref name=":1" /> In 1988 Australia accounted for 5.5 percent of total Japanese imports, a share that held relatively steady in the late 1980s.<ref name=":1" /> Due to its ability to export raw materials, Australia had a trade surplus with Japan.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} Australia was the largest single supplier of coal, iron ore, wool, and sugar to Japan in 1988.<ref name=":1" /> Australia is also a supplier of [[uranium]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} Japanese investment by 1988 made Australia the single largest source of Japanese regional imports.<ref name=":1" /> Resource development projects in Australia attracted Japanese capital, as did trade protectionism by necessitating local production for the Australian market.<ref name=":1" /> Investments in Australia totaled US$8.1 billion in 1988, accounting for 4.4 percent of Japanese direct investment abroad.<ref name=":1" /> There is some tension regarding the issue of whaling.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}
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|{{flag|Fiji }}||1 October 1970<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Fiji-Japan relations]]
*Japan has an embassy in [[Suva]] and Fiji has an embassy in [[Tokyo]].
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|{{flag|New Zealand}}||1952<ref name="mfat"/>||See [[Japan–New Zealand relations]]
[[File:Keith Holyoake and Masayoshi Ohira cropped 2 Keith Holyoake and Masayoshi Ohira 197210.jpg|right|thumb|New Zealand Prime Minister [[Keith Holyoake]] (left) met with Japanese Foreign Minister [[Masayoshi Ohira]] (right), in October 1972.]]

Japan–[[New Zealand]] relations have had generally cordial relations since the post-[[World War II]] period, with Japan being a major trading partner with New Zealand. These relations have held together despite policy disputes over [[whaling]] and the [[International Whaling Commission]].

In March 2011, New Zealand sent an urban search and rescue team, which had spent time the previous three weeks searching buildings after the [[2011 Christchurch earthquake|last month's devastating earthquake]] in [[Christchurch]], and 15 tonnes of rescue equipment to assist Japan following the [[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami|Tōhoku earthquake and the subsequent of tsunami]] and [[Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster|Fukushima nuclear disaster]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.3news.co.nz/New-Zealand-USAR-team-arrive-in-Japan/tabid/423/articleID/202316/Default.aspx|title=New Zealand USAR team arrive in Japan|publisher=3 News|date=14 March 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200627/http://www.3news.co.nz/New-Zealand-USAR-team-arrive-in-Japan/tabid/423/articleID/202316/Default.aspx|archive-date=29 October 2013|access-date=30 November 2018}}</ref> [[New Zealand Parliament]] sends condolences to the people of Japan, and the [[New Zealand Government|government]] donated [[New Zealand dollar|$]]2 million to the Japanese Red Cross Society to support relief efforts.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://beehive.govt.nz/release/support-japan|title=Support for Japan|publisher=Beehive.govt.nz|date=21 March 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520164530/http://beehive.govt.nz/release/support-japan|archive-date=20 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nzembassy.com/japan/news/new-zealand-fire-service-urban-search-and-rescue-usar |title=New Zealand Fire Service Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) |publisher=NZ Embassy |date=21 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331171611/https://www.nzembassy.com/japan/news/new-zealand-fire-service-urban-search-and-rescue-usar |archive-date=31 March 2012  }}</ref>
* New Zealand has an embassy in Tokyo.
* Japan has an embassy in [[Wellington]] and two consulates-general in [[Auckland]] and [[Christchurch]].
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Japan and the Kingdom of [[Tonga]] have maintained official diplomatic relations since July 1970.<ref name="Japan–Tonga Relations">[http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/tonga/ "Japan–Tonga Relations"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091122212948/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/tonga/ |date=22 November 2009 }}, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs</ref> Japan is Tonga's leading donor in the field of technical aid.<ref name="Japan–Tonga Relations"/> The Japanese government describes its relations with Tonga as "excellent", and states that "the [[Imperial family of Japan]] and the [[Royal family of Tonga]] have developed a cordial and personal relationship over the years".<ref name="Japan–Tonga Relations"/>
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==Disputed territories==
{{main|Territorial disputes of Japan}}
Japan has several [[territorial dispute]]s with its neighbors concerning the control of certain outlying islands.

Japan contests [[Russia]]'s control of the [[Kuril Islands dispute|Southern Kuril Islands]] (including Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai group) which were occupied by the [[Soviet Union]] in 1945.<ref>MOFA, [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/territory/index.html Japan's Northern Territories] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322191810/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/territory/index.html |date=22 March 2011 }}</ref> [[South Korea]]'s assertions concerning [[Liancourt Rocks]] (Japanese: "Takeshima", Korean: "Dokdo") are acknowledged, but not accepted by Japan.<ref name="takeshima">MOFA, [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/takeshima/index.html The Issue of Takeshima] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019211509/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/takeshima/index.html |date=19 October 2012 }}</ref> Japan has strained relations with the [[China|People's Republic of China]] (PRC) and the [[Taiwan|Republic of China]] (Taiwan) over the [[Senkaku Islands]];<ref>MOFA, [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/senkaku/senkaku.html The Basic View on the Sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100930044112/http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/senkaku/senkaku.html |date=30 September 2010 }}</ref> and with the People's Republic of China over the status of [[Okinotorishima]].

==See also==
{{Portal|Japan}}
* [[Foreign policy of Japan]]
* [[List of diplomatic missions in Japan]]
* [[List of diplomatic missions of Japan]]
* [[List of international trips made by prime ministers of Japan]]
* [[List of war apology statements issued by Japan]]
* [[Hotta Masayoshi]]
* [[Visa requirements for Japanese citizens]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

== Further reading==
*  Akagi, Roy Hidemichi. ''Japan's Foreign Relations 1542-1936: A Short History'' (Hokuseido Press, 1936). [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226231 online] 560pp
* Akimoto, Daisuke. ''The Abe Doctrine: Japan's Proactive Pacifism and Security Strategy'' (Springer, 2018).
* Barnhart, Michael A. ''Japan and the World since 1868'' (Hodder Education, 1995) [https://www.amazon.com/Japan-World-International-Relations-Powers/dp/0340528575 excerpt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107232853/https://www.amazon.com/Japan-World-International-Relations-Powers/dp/0340528575 |date=7 November 2022 }}
* Bradford, John. "Southeast Asia: A New Strategic Nexus for Japan's Maritime Strategy." ''CIMSEC'' (September 2020). [https://cimsec.org/southeast-asia-a-new-strategic-nexus-for-japans-maritime-strategy/ online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020043455/https://cimsec.org/southeast-asia-a-new-strategic-nexus-for-japans-maritime-strategy/ |date=20 October 2021 }}
* Buckley, Roger. ''US-Japan Alliance Diplomacy 1945–1990'' (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
* Duus, Peter, ed. ''The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century'' (Cambridge University Press, 1989).
* Gustafsson, Karl, Linus Hagström, and Ulv Hanssen. "Japan's pacifism is dead." ''Survival'' 60.6 (2018): 137–158.
* Hatano, Sumio. ''One Hundred Fifty Years of Japanese Foreign Relations: From 1868 to 2018'' (Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2022). [https://www.jpicinternational.com/books/politicalscience/ce5604ee96133b803263bbb83895fb299e371380.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020210454/https://www.jpicinternational.com/books/politicalscience/ce5604ee96133b803263bbb83895fb299e371380.html |date=20 October 2022 }}
* Hook, Glenn D. et al. ''Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security'' 3rd ed (Routledge, 2011), covers 1945–2010.
* Inoguchi, Takashi. ''Japan's Foreign Policy in an Era of Global Change'' (Bloomsbury, 2013).
* Iriye, Akira. ''Japan and the Wider World: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present'' (Routledge, 1997).
*Iriye, Akira and Robert A. Wampler eds. ''Partnership: The United States and Japan, 1951-2001'' (Kodansha International, 2001). [https://archive.org/details/partnership00robe online]
* Kibata, Yoichi and Ian Nish, eds. ''The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600–2000: Volume I: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1600–1930'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Anglo-Japanese-Relations-1600-2000-Political-Diplomatic/dp/0333753879/  excerpt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405155545/https://www.amazon.com/History-Anglo-Japanese-Relations-1600-2000-Political-Diplomatic/dp/0333753879 |date=5 April 2022 }}, first of five topical volumes also covering social, economic and military relations between Japan and Great Britain.
* LaFeber, Walter. ''The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations'' (W. W. Norton, 1997), a standard scholarly history; [https://archive.org/details/clashhistoryofus00lafe online]
* Malafaia, Thiago Corrêa. "Japanese International Relations: An Assessment of the 1971–2011 Period." ''Brazilian Political Science Review'' 10.1 (2016).  [http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1981-38212016000100207&script=sci_arttext online in English] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724201831/https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-38212016000100207 |date=24 July 2020 }}
* Maslow, Sebastian, Ra Mason, and Paul O’Shea, eds. ''Risk State: Japan's Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty'' (Ashgate, 2015) 202pp [http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=19921&edition_id=1209350164&calcTitle=1&lang=cy-gb excerpt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923175421/http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=19921&edition_id=1209350164&calcTitle=1&lang=cy-gb |date=23 September 2015 }}
* Matray, James I. ed. ''East Asia and the United States: An Encyclopedia of Relations since 1784'' 2 volumes (Greenwood, 2002).
* Nakamura, Satoru, and Wright, Steven (eds.). Japan and the Middle East. Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3459-9
* Peng Er, Lam, ed. ''Japan's Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). [https://www.amazon.com/Japans-Foreign-Policy-Twenty-First-Century/dp/149858795X/ excerpt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929032632/https://www.amazon.com/Japans-Foreign-Policy-Twenty-First-Century/dp/149858795X |date=29 September 2021 }}  
* Pugliese, Giulio, and Alessio Patalano. "Diplomatic and Security Practice under Abe Shinzō: The Case for Realpolitik Japan." ''Australian Journal of International Affairs'' 74.6 (2020): 615–632.
* Shimamoto, Mayako, Koji Ito, and Yoneyuki Sugita, eds. ''Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) [https://www.amazon.com/Historical-Dictionary-Dictionaries-Diplomacy-Relations-ebook/dp/B0101SY8R6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495446484&sr=8-1&keywords=Historical+Dictionary+of+Japanese+Foreign+Policy excerpt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231028074824/https://www.amazon.com/Historical-Dictionary-Dictionaries-Diplomacy-Relations-ebook/dp/B0101SY8R6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495446484&sr=8-1&keywords=Historical+Dictionary+of+Japanese+Foreign+Policy |date=28 October 2023 }}
* Togo, Kazuhiko. ''Japan's Foreign Policy 1945–2003'' (Brill, 2005).
* Yoshimatsu, Hidetaka. "Japan's Role Conception in Multilateral Initiatives: The Evolution from Hatoyama to Abe." ''Australian Journal of International Affairs'' 72.2 (2018): 129–144.
* Zakowski, Karol et al. eds. ''Japan's Foreign Policy Making: Central Government Reforms, Decision-Making Processes, and Diplomacy'' (Springer, 2018). [http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/60241/1/193.pdf.pdf online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020042836/http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/60241/1/193.pdf.pdf |date=20 October 2021 }}
* Zakowski, Karol. "Nationalism vs. Interests: A Neoclassical Realist Perspective on Japan's Policy towards China under the Second Abe Administration." ''Pacific Focus'' 34.3 (2019): 473–495.

==External links==
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* Various articles and discussion papers on Japan's foreign relations in the [http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk ''electronic journal of contemporary Japanese studies''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051108105216/http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ |date=8 November 2005 }}
* [http://allafrica.com/stories/200611090213.html Rwanda: Kagame Addresses Japanese Senate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002223031/http://allafrica.com/stories/200611090213.html |date=2 October 2012 }}
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130514234018/http://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/552494/search?query=geographic-region%3A%22Japan%22 Videos on Japan's Relations with the US]}} from the {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160115205405/https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/552494 Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives]}}

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