List of ambassadors of the United States to Japan
List of chiefs of mission
The following is a list of chiefs of mission. Resident Ministers Townsend Harris (Presented credentials, November 5, 1859–Presented recall, April 26, 1862) Robert H.

List of ambassadors of the United States to Japan

Section Title: List of chiefs of mission
Table Section Text: The following is a list of chiefs of mission. Resident Ministers Townsend Harris (Presented credentials, November 5, 1859–Presented recall, April 26, 1862) Robert H.

Name	Presented credentials	End of term	End of date

Luke E. Wright	May 26, 1906	Left Japan	August 13, 1907

Thomas J. O'Brien	October 15, 1907	Left Post	August 31, 1911

Charles Page Bryan	November 22, 1911	Left Post	October 1, 1912

Larz Anderson	February 1, 1913	Left Japan	March 15, 1913

George W. Guthrie	August 7, 1913	Died at post	March 8, 1917

Roland Morris	October 30, 1917	Left Japan	May 15, 1920

Charles B. Warren	September 24, 1921	Left Japan	January 28, 1923

Cyrus Woods	July 21, 1923	Left Japan	June 5, 1924

Edgar Bancroft	November 19, 1924	Died at post	July 27, 1925

Charles MacVeagh	December 9, 1925	Left Japan	December 6, 1928

William Castle, Jr.	January 24, 1930	Left Japan	May 27, 1930

W. Cameron Forbes	September 15, 1930	Left Japan	March 22, 1932

Joseph Grew	June 14, 1932	American declaration of war	December 8, 1941

William J. Sebald	1945	1952

Robert D. Murphy	May 9, 1952	Relinquished Charge	April 28, 1953

John M. Allison	May 28, 1953	Left Post	February 2, 1957

Douglas MacArthur II	February 25, 1957	Left Post	March 12, 1961

Edwin Reischauer	April 27, 1961	Left Post	August 19, 1966

U. Alexis Johnson	November 8, 1966	Left Post	January 15, 1969

Armin H. Meyer	July 3, 1969	Left Post	March 27, 1972

Robert Stephen Ingersoll	April 12, 1972	Left Post	November 8, 1973

James D. Hodgson	July 19, 1974	Left Post	February 2, 1977

Mike Mansfield	June 10, 1977	Left Post	December 22, 1988

Michael Armacost	May 15, 1989	Left Post	July 19, 1993

Walter Mondale	September 21, 1993	Left Post	December 15, 1996

Thomas S. Foley	November 19, 1997	Left Post	April 1, 2001

Howard Henry Baker, Jr.	July 5, 2001	Farewell address	February 17, 2005

Tom Schieffer	April 11, 2005	Left Post	January 20, 2009

John Roos	August 20, 2009	Left Post	August 12, 2013

Caroline Kennedy	November 12, 2013	Left Post	January 18, 2017

William F. Hagerty	July 27, 2017	present	—

Sentence(s)

Edgar Bancroft served as United States Ambassador to Japan from 1924 to 1925.

final_sentence: Edgar Bancroft served as United States Ambassador to Japan from 1924 to 1925.