List of Successive Japanese Heads of Mission to Canada

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1	H.E. Minister Iemasa Tokugawa	October 1929 - April 1933 / December 1933 - January 1935
2	H.E. Minister Sotomatsu Kato	June 1935 - June 1937
3	H.E. Minister Shu Tomii	May 1938 - June 1939 / October 1939 - September 1940
4	H.E. Minister Seijiro Yoshizawa	October 1940 - May 1942
5	H.E. Ambassador Sadao Iguchi	June 1952 - March 1954
6	H.E. Ambassador Koto Matsudaira	March 1954 - May 1957
7	H.E. Ambassador Toru Hagiwara	May 1957 - July 1961
8	H.E. Ambassador Nobuhiko Ushiba	October 1961 - June 1964
9	H.E. Ambassador Hisanaga Shimazu	October 1964 - August 1966
10	H.E. Ambassador Osamu Itagaki	September 1966 - June 1969
11	H.E. Ambassador Shinichi Kondo	July 1969 - August 1972
12	H.E. Ambassador Akira Nishiyama	August 1972 - February 1975
13	H.E. Ambassador Yasuhiko Nara	April 1975 - July 1978
14	H.E. Ambassador Michiaki Suma	August 1978 - November 1981
15	H.E. Ambassador Kiyohisa Mikanagi	December 1981 - November 1984
16	H.E. Ambassador Kiyoaki Kikuchi	December 1984 - May 1986
17	H.E. Ambassador Yoshio Okawa	May 1986 - September 1988
18	H.E. Ambassador Hiroshi Kitamura	October 1988 - December 1990
19	H.E. Ambassador Michio Mizoguchi	December 1990 - February 1993
20	H.E. Ambassador Noboru Nakahira	April 1993 - December 1995
21	H.E. Ambassador Takashi Tajima	December 1995 - August 1998
22	H.E. Ambassador Katsuhisa Uchida	September 1998 - April 2001
23	H.E. Ambassador Kensaku Hogen	May 2001 - December 2004
24	H.E. Ambassador Sadaaki Numata	December 2004 - March 2007
25	H.E. Ambassador Tsuneo Nishida	March 2007 - July 2010
26	H.E. Ambassador Kaoru Ishikawa	August 2010 - April 2013
27	H.E. Ambassador Norihiro Okuda	April 2013 - March 2015
28	H.E. Ambassador Kenjiro Monji	April 2015 - November 2017
29	H.E. Ambassador Kimihiro Ishikane	November 2017 - November 2019
30	H.E. Ambassador Yasuhisa Kawamura	November 2019 - April 2022
31	H.E. Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi	May 2022 - present