Chiefs of Mission for Japan
- Townsend Harris (1859-1862)
- Robert Hewson Pruyn (1861-1865)
- Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1865-)
- Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh (1866-1869)
- Charles E. De Long (1869-)
- Charles E. De Long (1870-1873)
- John Armour Bingham (1873-1885)
- Richard Bennet Hubbard (1885-1889)
- John Franklin Swift (1889-1891)
- Frank Leslie Coombs (1892-1893)
- Edwin Dun (1893-1897)
- Alfred Eliab Buck (1897-1902)
- Lloyd Carpenter Griscom (1902-1905)
- Luke Edward Wright (1906-1907)
- Thomas James O'Brien (1907-1911)
- Charles Page Bryan (1911-1912)
- Larz Anderson (1912-1913)
- George Wilkins Guthrie (1913-1917)
- Roland Sletor Morris (1917-1920)
- Charles Beecher Warren (1921-1922)
- Cyrus E. Woods (1923-1924)
- Edgar Addison Bancroft (1924-1925)
- Charles MacVeagh (1925-1928)
- William Richards Castle (1929-1930)
- William Cameron Forbes (1930-1932)
- Joseph Clark Grew (1932-1941)
- Robert Daniel Murphy (1952-1953)
- John Moore Allison (1953-1957)
- Douglas MacArthur (1956-1961)
- Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (1961-1966)
- Ural Alexis Johnson (1966-1969)
- Armin Henry Meyer (1969-1972)
- Robert Stephen Ingersoll (1972-1973)
- James Day Hodgson (1974-1977)
- Michael Joseph Mansfield (1977-1988)
- Michael Hayden Armacost (1989-1993)
- Walter F. Mondale (1993-1996)
- Thomas S. Foley (1997-2001)
- Howard Henry Baker (2001-2005)
- John Thomas Schieffer (2005-2009)
- John Victor Roos (2009-)