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The Embassy of Japan in Berlin |
Contact
Address: Hiroshimastrasse 6, 10785 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 30-210-940
Fax: +49 30-210-94222
E-mail: info@bo.mofa.go.jp
The Ambassador
Amb. Shino Mitsuko
The ambassador began her career at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in April 1987 after graduating from Hitotsubashi University. She has held roles such as First Secretary at the Japanese embassies in Germany (2000) and Poland (2003), rising to Counselor in Poland (2004). She subsequently held key positions at the Ministry, including Head of the APEC Bureau (2006), Head of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Bureau (2008), and Counselor (2010) and Ambassador to Italy (2013). He was Ambassador to Iceland (2014), at the Permanent Mission to International Organizations in Geneva (2016), Deputy Spokesperson (2018), Head of the Department of International Cultural Exchange and Ambassador for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games (2019), Chief of Protocol (2021), Ambassador to the United Nations (2022) and, since November 2024, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Germany.
History
Germany and Japan have a tradition of friendly bilateral relations. Over the past decades, international cooperation between the two countries has intensified. In 2011, Germany and Japan celebrated their 150th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. The principal multilateral forums for German cooperation with Japan are the United Nations, the G7/G8 and G20 groups and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summits. In addition, the European Union is a member of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in which issues relating to security policy in Asia are discussed.
Japanese-German relations are extremely tight also in the economic field. Germany is for Japan the largest trading partner in Europe, while, conversely, Japan was for many years the most important German trading partners in the Asia-Pacific region.
