List of ambassadors of Spain to Japan

!| Designated/ Accredited

!| End of Mission

!| Ambassador

!| Head of State

!| Prime Minister of Japan

!| Notes

|{{dts|1592}}

|Juan Cobo

|Philip II

|Go-Yōzei Tennō

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|

|San Pedro Bautista

|Philip II

|Go-Yōzei Tennō

|Father Pedro Bautista, a Franciscan, was sent to Japan with three other companions.Dégano, Felipe Robles, Life and martyrdom of San Pedro Bautista, barefoot religious of the Order of San Francisco and ambassador of Spain in Japan, Madrid, Modern Typography, 1927.

|{{dts|1613}}

|Sebastián Vizcaíno

|Philip III

|Go-Mizunoo Tennō

|{{cite book |last1=Bourgoing |first1=Jean-Fran-cois |last2=Bourgoing |first2=Jean-François baron de |title=Imagen de la moderna España |date=2012 |publisher=Universidad de Alicante |isbn=978-84-9717-212-7 |page=485 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qHykvVrZCW8C&pg=PA485 |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=es}}

|{{dts|8 March 1869}}

|José Luis Ceacero Inguanzo

|Provisional Government

|Meiji Tenno

|Minister Plenipotentiary of the Yokohama Legation

|

|Tiburcio Rodríguez y Muñoz

|Alfonso XII

|Meiji Tenno

|Charge d'affaires

|{{dts| 7 October 1879}}

|Mariano Álvarez

|Alfonso XII

|Meiji Tenno

|Minister Plenipotentiary of the Legation in Tokyo

|{{dts|28 December 1884}}

|Luis del Castillo y Trigueros

|Alfonso XII

|Meiji Tenno

|

|

|José Delvat y Arêas

|María Cristina

|Itō Hirobumi

|

|{{dts|11 January 1895}}

|Luis del Castillo y Trigueros

|María Cristina

|Kuroda Kiyotaka

|Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

|{{dts|14 May 1907}}

|Luis de la Barrera y Riera

|María Cristina

|Itō Hirobumi

|[http://bibliotecavirtualmadrid.org/bvmadrid_publicacion/i18n/catalogo_imagenes/imagen.cmd?path=1027019&posicion=6 Luis de la Barrera y Riera][http://realbiblioteca.patrimonionacional.es/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=183479http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1910/10/28/006.htmlhttps://archive.org/stream/anuariodelminis00argegoog/anuariodelminis00argegoog_djvu.txt]

|{{dts|September 1915}}

|Ramiro Gil de Uribarri

|Alfonso XIII

|Katsura Tarō

|{{cite web |title=Concurrentes al banquete que el ministro de España en Tokio, Sr. Gil de Ulibarri... - Archivo ABC |url=https://www.abc.es/archivo/fotos/concurrentes-al-banquete-que-el-ministro-de-espana-en-tokio-sr-7473600.html |website=www.abc.es |publisher=abc |access-date=8 May 2024 |date=27 February 2020}}

|{{dts|April 1924}}

|José Caro y Széchényi

|Alfonso XIII

|Ōkuma Shigenobu

|

|{{dts|July 1929}}

|Pedro Quartin y del Saz Caballero

|Alfonso XIII

|Wakatsuki Reijirō

|

|{{dts|January 1931}}

|Luis Dupuy de Lôme y Vidiella

|Alfonso XIII

|Hamaguchi Osachi

|Charge d'affaires

|{{dts|January 1932}}

|Juan Francisco de Cárdenas y Rodríguez de Rivas

|Alfonso XIII

|Shidehara Kijūrō

|Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary[http://www.mcnbiografias.com/app-bio/do/show?key=cardenas-y-rodriguez-de-rivas-juan-francisco-de Juan Francisco de Cárdenas, Juan Francisco de Cárdenas y Rodríguez de Rivas]

|{{dts|April 1932}}

|Pedro Antonio Satorras y Dameto

|Niceto Alcalá Zamora

|Inukai Tsuyoshi

|Charge d'affaires

|{{dts|26 August 1936}}

|Santiago Méndez de Vigo y Méndez de Vigo

|Niceto Alcalá Zamora

|Saitō Makoto

|Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

|{{dts|April 1937}}

|Juan Gômez de Molina

|Francisco Franco

|Hirota Koki

|Charge d'affaires

|{{dts|December 1937}}

|José Luis Álvarez

|Francisco Franco

|Hayashi Senjūrō

|

|{{dts|October 1938}}

|Francisco José del Castillo

|Francisco Franco

|Konoe Fumimaro

|

|{{dts|12 April 1945}}

|Santiago Méndez de Vigo y Méndez de Vigo

|Francisco Franco

|Konoe Fumimaro

|Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

|

|Francisco José del Castillo

|Francisco Franco

|Yoshida Shigeru

|Ambassador{{cite web |title=ABC MADRID 28-06-1953 página 52 - Archivo ABC |url=https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-madrid-19530628-52.html |website=www.abc.es |publisher=abc |access-date=8 May 2024 |date=6 August 2019}}

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|Pelayo García Olay Álvarez

|Francisco Franco

|Ichirō Hatoyama

|Minister in Damascus[http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1953/03/21/016.html][http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1954/07/22/004.html][http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1954/10/14/027.html][http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1989/10/25/107.html Pelayo García Olayy Alvarez]

|{{dts|25 June 1964}}

|Antonio Villacieros y Benito

|Francisco Franco

|Nobusuke Kishi

|[http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1958/02/25/005.html][http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1964/07/10/indice_departamentos.php?d=165&e=MINISTERIO+DE+ASUNTOS+EXTERIORES&lang=en Antonio Villacieros y Benito]

|{{dts|07 February 1970}}

|Luis García de Llera y Rodríguez

|Francisco Franco

|Hayato Ikeda

|[https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1964/07/29/index.php?s=2 Luis García de Llera y Rodríguez]

|{{dts|July 1973}}

|Alfonso Merry del Val y Alzola

|Francisco Franco

|Eisaku Satō

|Ambassador to the United States

|

|Joaquín Gutiérrez Cano

|Luis Carrero Blanco

|Tanaka Kakuei

|

|{{dts|6 March 1981}}

|José Aragonés Vilá

|Carlos Arias Navarro

|Miki Takeo

|[http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1974/05/30/indice_departamentos.php?d=129&e=MINISTERIO+DE+ASUNTOS+EXTERIORES][http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1975/10/14/026.html José Aragonés Vilá]

|{{dts|19 May 1985}}

|Eduardo Ibañez y García de Velasco

|Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo

|Zenkō Suzuki

|[http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1981/03/11/indice_departamentos.php?d=60&e=MINISTERIO+DE+ASUNTOS+EXTERIORES][http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1985/05/10/103.html Eduardo Ibañez y García de Velasco]

|{{dts|19 May 1985}}

|Camilo Barcia García-Villamil

|Felipe González

|Nakasone Yasuhiro

|

|{{dts|25 November 1994}}

|Antonio de Oyarzábal Marchesi

|Felipe González

|Kaifu Toshiki

|{{cite web |title=Rosa Conde descarta, "por cuestión de imagen", una entrevista González-Aznar |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1990/05/12/espana/642463204_850215.html |website=elpais.com |publisher=El País |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=es |date=12 May 1990}}

|{{dts|18 March 1999}}

|Santiago Salas Collantes

|Felipe González

|Tomiichi Murayama

|[https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1994/12/24/pdfs/A38678-38679.pdf Santiago Salas Collantes]

|{{dts|20 September 2002}}

|Juan Bautista Leña Casas

|José María Aznar

|Keizō Obuchi

|

|{{dts|22 January 2006}}

|Francisco Javier Conde de Saro

|José María Aznar

|Jun'ichirō Koizumi

|{{cite book |last1=Westlake |first1=Martin |last2=Galloway |first2=David |title=The Council of the European Union |date=2004 |publisher=John Harper |isbn=978-0-9536278-8-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYQNAQAAMAAJ |access-date=8 May 2024 |language=en}}[http://www.arquitecturaysociedad.com/comision-ejecutiva/francisco-javier-conde-saro Francisco Javier Conde de Saro cv]

|{{dts|8 January 2010}}

|Miguel Ángel Carriedo Mompín

|José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

|Shinzō Abe

|[https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2010/11/16/indice_departamentos.php?d=277&e=MINISTERIO+DE+ASUNTOS+EXTERIORES+Y+DE+COOPERACI%D3N Miguel Ángel Carriedo Mompín][http://195.75.145.68/whoiswho/ricerca-spain.php?code=SBWWWWXXWW cv]

|{{dts|24 October 2014}}

|Miguel Ángel Navarro Portera

|José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

|Naoto Kan

|[http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2014/01/08/actualidad/1389197382_934275.html][http://www.mfa.gov.sg/content/mfa/media_centre/press_room/pr/2014/201412/press_20141223.printable.html?status=1 Miguel Ángel Navarro Portera]

|{{dts|22 October 2018}}

|Gonzalo de Benito Secades

|Mariano Rajoy

|Shinzō Abe

|[https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2014/11/15/indice_departamentos.php?d=277&e=MINISTERIO+DE+ASUNTOS+EXTERIORES+Y+DE+COOPERACI%D3N Gonzalo de Benito Secades][http://www.exteriores.gob.es/Embajadas/TOKIO/es/Embajada/Paginas/CVEmbajador.aspx]

|{{dts|8 February 2022}}

|Jorge Toledo Albiñana

|Pedro Sánchez

|Shinzō Abe

|[https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2018-14492 Jorge Toledo Albiñana][http://www.exteriores.gob.es/Embajadas/TOKIO/es/Embajada/Paginas/CVEmbajador.aspx]

|In office

|Fidel Sendagorta Gómez del Campillo

|Pedro Sánchez

|Fumio Kishida

|[https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2022-2073 Fidel Sendagorta Gómez del Campillo][http://www.exteriores.gob.es/Embajadas/TOKIO/es/Embajada/Paginas/CVEmbajador.aspx]