| Post: | Ambassador |
| Body: | India to Japan |
| Insignia: | File:Emblem of India.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 75px |
| Incumbent: | Sibi George |
| Incumbentsince: | 2023 |
| Style: | His Excellency |
| Nominator: | Droupadi Murmu |
| Nominatorpost: | President of India |
| Inaugural: | K. K. Chettur |
| Formation: | 7 May 1952 |
| Website: | Embassy of India, Tokyo, Japan |
The Indian Ambassador to Japan is the chief diplomatic representative of India to Japan.
The chiefs of the Indian diplomatic mission to Japan are:[1]
| S. No. | Name | Date charge assumed | Date charge relinquished | Duration in post |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benegal Rama Rau | 1947 | 1948 | 1 year |
| 2 | Birendra Narayan Chakraborty | 1948 | 1949 | 1 year |
| 3 | Krishna Krishna Chettur | 8 March 1950 | 28 April 1952 | |
| S. No. | Name | Date charge assumed | Date charge relinquished | Duration in post |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Krishna Krishna Chettur | 7 May 1952[2] | August 1952 | 3 months |
| 2 | M. A. Rauf | 16 October 1952[3] | May 1954 | 1 year, 7 months |
| 3 | Binay Ranjan Sen | 17 February 1955 | September 1956 | 1 year, 7 months |
| 4 | Chandra Shekhar Jha | 4 May 1957 | 7 January 1959[4] | |
| 5 | Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh | 19 February 1959 | 1 February 1960[5] | |
| 6 | Lalji Mehrotra | 19 July 1960 | 21 December 1964 | |
| 7 | Badruddin Tyabji | 21 March 1965 | 4 July 1967 | |
| 8 | S. K. Banerji | 11 November 1967 | 2 July 1970 | |
| 9 | V. H. Coelho | 5 July 1970 | 26 November 1972[6] | |
| 10 | S. T. Than | 27 December 1972 | 30 June 1975 | |
| 11 | Eric Gonsalves | 11 September 1975 | 17 June 1978 | |
| 12 | Avtar Singh | 25 June 1978 | 31 October 1979[7] | |
| 13 | V. K. Ahuja | 29 December 1979 | 8 November 1980 | |
| 14 | K. P. S. Menon Jr. | 31 August 1981 | 19 January 1985 | |
| 15 | Anantanarayanan Madhavan | 13 April 1985 | 7 May 1988 | |
| 16 | Arjun G. Asrani | 8 June 1988 | 31 July 1992 | |
| 17 | Prakash Shah | 28 October 1992 | 31 January 1995 | |
| 18 | Kuldip Sahdev | 2 March 1995 | 31 March 1997 | |
| 19 | Siddharth Singh | 4 May 1997 | 14 September 2000 | |
| 20 | Aftab Seth | 28 September 2000 | 30 September 2003 | |
| 21 | Mani Lal Tripathi | 16 November 2003 | 30 April 2006 | |
| 22 | Hemant Krishan Singh | 1 June 2006 | 31 December 2010 | |
| 23 | Alok Prasad | 9 February 2011 | 30 June 2012 | |
| 24 | Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa | 8 August 2012 | 30 November 2015 | |
| 25 | Sujan R. Chinoy | 3 December 2015 | 30 November 2018 | |
| 26 | Sanjay Kumar Verma | 5 May 2019 | 31 October 2022 | |
| 27 | Sibi George | 1 November 2022 | Incumbent | |