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Japan
| Name | Locale | Remarks | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philander Chase Knox | Tokyo | Attended funeral ceremony for Emperor Mutsuhito; left U.S. August 22; returned October 11. | September 9–22, 1912 |
| John Foster Dulles | Tokyo | Stopped en route to Korea. | August 2, 1953 |
| John Foster Dulles | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Yoshida while returning to U.S. Announced return of the Amami Islands to Japan. Returned to U.S. August 10. | August 8, 1953 |
| John Foster Dulles | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Yoshida and Foreign Minister Okazaki en route from Manila. | September 9–10, 1954 |
| John Foster Dulles | Tokyo | Met with Premier Hatoyama and Foreign Minister Shigemitsu. | March 18–19, 1956 |
| David Dean Rusk | Hakone | Attended a meeting of U.S.-Japan Joint Committee on Trade and Economic Affairs. | November 1–4, 1961 |
| David Dean Rusk | Tokyo | Attended a meeting of Joint U.S.-Japan Committee on Trade and Economic Affairs. | January 24–28, 1964 |
| David Dean Rusk | Kyoto, Tokyo | Attended a meeting of U.S.-Japan Committee on Trade and Economic Affairs. | July 4–7, 1966 |
| David Dean Rusk | Yokota | Stopped en route to Manila. | October 21, 1966 |
| David Dean Rusk | Tokyo | Met with senior Japanese officials. | December 5–7, 1966 |
| William Pierce Rogers | Tokyo | Attended a meeting of the Joint Committee on Trade and Economic Development. Signed a space cooperation agreement. | July 28–31, 1969 |
| William Pierce Rogers | Tokyo | Attended a meeting of U.S. Chiefs of Mission to Asian countries and met with Prime Minister Sato and senior Japanese officials. | July 7–10, 1970 |
| William Pierce Rogers | Tokyo | Attended a meeting of the Joint U.S.-Japan Committee on Trade and Economic Affairs. | July 15–17, 1973 |
| Henry A. (Heinz Alfred) Kissinger | Tokyo | Chiefs of Mission to Asian countries. | November 14–16, 1973 |
| Henry A. (Heinz Alfred) Kissinger | Tokyo | Accompanied President Ford on a State visit. | November 18–22, 1974 |
| Henry A. (Heinz Alfred) Kissinger | Tokyo | Met with Foreign Minister Kimura. | November 25, 1974 |
| Henry A. (Heinz Alfred) Kissinger | Tokyo | Stopped en route to China. | October 18–19, 1975 |
| Henry A. (Heinz Alfred) Kissinger | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Miki and Foreign Minister Miyazawa. | October 23, 1975 |
| Henry A. (Heinz Alfred) Kissinger | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Miki and Foreign Minister Miyazawa. | December 8, 1975 |
| Cyrus Roberts Vance | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Fukuda and Foreign Minister Hatoyama. | August 26–27, 1977 |
| Cyrus Roberts Vance | Tokyo | Accompanied President Carter on a State visit and to the Economic Summit Meeting. | June 25–29, 1979 |
| Edmund Sixtus Muskie | Tokyo | Accompanied President Carter to funeral of Prime Minister Ohira. Met with Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng. | July 9–10, 1980 |
| George Pratt Shultz | Tokyo | Nakasone and Foreign Minister Abe. | January 30–February 2, 1983 |
| George Pratt Shultz | Tokyo | Stopped while returning to U.S. | February 10, 1983 |
| George Pratt Shultz | Tokyo | Accompanied President Reagan on a State visit. | November 9–12, 1983 |
| George Pratt Shultz | Tokyo | Stopped while returning to U.S. | May 2, 1984 |
| George Pratt Shultz | Tokyo | Accompanied President Reagan to the Economic Summit Meeting. | May 2–7, 1986 |
| George Pratt Shultz | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Nakasone and senior Japanese officials. | March 6–7, 1987 |
| George Pratt Shultz | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Takeshita and Foreign Minister Uno. | July 18–20, 1988 |
| James Addison Baker | Tokyo | Accompanied President Bush. | February 23–25, 1989 |
| James Addison Baker | Tokyo | Attended the Multilateral Assistance Initiative for the Philippines conference. | July 4–5, 1989 |
| James Addison Baker | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Miyazawa and Foreign Minister Watanabe. | November 10–12, 1991 |
| Warren Minor Christopher | Tokyo | Attended a meeting of the G-7 Foreign and Finance Ministers on aid to the former Soviet Union. | April 13–15, 1993 |
| Warren Minor Christopher | Tokyo | Accompanied President Clinton to the Economic Summit Meeting and to meetings with Russian President Yeltsin. | July 6–10, 1993 |
| Warren Minor Christopher | Tokyo | Met with senior Japanese officials and attended a meeting of the International Committee on the Reconstruction of Cambodia. | March 9–11, 1994 |
| Warren Minor Christopher | Osaka | Attended APEC Ministerial Meeting. | November 16–17, 1995 |
| Warren Minor Christopher | Tokyo | Accompanied President Clinton on a State Visit. | April 16–18, 1996 |
| Warren Minor Christopher | Sapporo | Overnight stop while en route to China. | November 18, 1996 |
| Madeleine Korbel Albright | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Hashimoto and senior officials. | February 23–24, 1997 |
| Madeleine Korbel Albright | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Hashimoto and Foreign Minister Obuchi. Signed amended Acquisitions and Cross-Servicing Agreement. | April 28–29, 1998 |
| Madeleine Korbel Albright | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Hashimoto and Foreign Minister Obuchi. | July 3–4, 1998 |
| Madeleine Korbel Albright | Tokyo | Stopped en route to ASEAN Ministerial meetings. | July 23–24, 1999 |
| Madeleine Korbel Albright | Tokyo, Miyazaki | Met with Prime Minister Mori and Foreign Minister Kono; attended the dedication of Albright Hall in Miyazaki. | July 29–31, 2000 |
| Colin Luther Powell | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Koizumi and senior officials. | July 23–24, 2001 |
| Colin Luther Powell | Tokyo | Attended the International Conference on Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan. | January 19–21, 2002 |
| Colin Luther Powell | Tokyo | Accompanied President Bush. | February 18–19, 2002 |
| Colin Luther Powell | Tokyo | Met with senior Japanese officials. | February 22–23, 2003 |
| Colin Luther Powell | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Koizumi and Foreign Minister Machimura. | October 23–24, 2004 |
| Condoleezza Rice | Tokyo | Met with Foreign Minister Machimura and senior Japanese officials. | March 18–19, 2005 |
| Condoleezza Rice | Tokyo | Met with Foreign Minister Machimura. | July 11–12, 2005 |
| Condoleezza Rice | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Abe and Foreign Minister Aso. | October 18–19, 2006 |
| Condoleezza Rice | Tokyo | Met with Foreign Minister Koumura and with Israeli Prime Minister Olmert. | February 26–27, 2008 |
| Condoleezza Rice | Kyoto | Attended the G-8 Ministerial Meeting and the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue with the Foreign Ministers of Australia and Japan. | June 26–28, 2008 |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | Tokyo | Met with Foreign Minister Nakasone. | February 16–18, 2009 |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | Tokyo | Met with Foreign Minister Okada. | May 21, 2010 |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Kan and Foreign Minister Matsumoto. | April 17, 2011 |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba. Attended the Conference on Afghanistan. | July 7–9, 2012 |
| John Forbes Kerry | Tokyo | Met with Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida. | April 14, 2013 |
| John Forbes Kerry | Tokyo | Attended the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee meeting. Signed Protocol to amend the Guam International Agreement concerning redeployment of U.S. forces from Okinawa to Guam. | October 2–4, 2013 |
| John Forbes Kerry | Hiroshima | Attended a G-7 ministerial meeting. | April 10–11, 2016 |
| Rex W. Tillerson | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida. | March 15–16, 2017 |
| Rex W. Tillerson | Tokyo | Accompanied President Trump. | November 5–7, 2017 |
| Michael R. Pompeo | Tokyo | Met with Japanese and South Korean leaders to discuss our shared commitment to the final, fully verified denuclearization of the DPRK, as well as other bilateral and regional issues. | July 7–8, 2018 |
| Michael R. Pompeo | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Taro Kono. | October 6–7, 2018 |
| Michael R. Pompeo | Osaka | Participated in the G–20 Leaders’ Summit. | June 28–30, 2019 |
| Michael R. Pompeo | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Suga and participated in the second meeting of the Quad Foreign Ministers of Australia (Payne), India (Jaishankar), and Japan (Motegi). | October 4–6, 2020 |
| Antony John Blinken | Tokyo | Attended the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee meeting and met with Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi. | March 15–17, 2021 |
| Antony John Blinken | Tokyo | Attended the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee meeting and met with Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi. | March 15–17, 2021 |
| Antony John Blinken | Tokyo | Accompanied President Biden on his first official trip to Asia as President to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and attend the Quad Leaders’ Summit. Met with Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa. | May 21–24, 2022 |
| Antony John Blinken | Tokyo | Offered condolences to the Japanese people on the death of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and met with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other senior Japanese officials. | July 11, 2022 |
| Antony John Blinken | Karuizawa | Attended the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. | April 16–18, 2023 |
| Antony John Blinken | Hiroshima | Accompanied President Biden to the G7 Summit. | May 17–20, 2023 |
| Antony John Blinken | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and participated in the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. | November 7–8, 2023 |
| Antony John Blinken | Tokyo | With Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, met with Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko and Japanese Defense Minister Kihara Minoru for a Foreign and Defense Ministerial (2+2) Dialogue and subsequently with Prime Minister Kishida Fumio. Met with Australian, Indian, and Japanese counterparts for a Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. | July 28–29, 2024 |
| Antony John Blinken | Tokyo | Met with Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi. | January 7, 2025 |