Name (English)	Name (Chinese)	Tenure begins	Tenure ends	Note
Hsu Shih-Ying	許世英	1936	1938	^[1]
Chu Minyi	褚民誼	1940	1941	^[1]
Hsu Liang	徐良	1941	1943	^[1]
Tsai Pei	蔡培	1943	1945	^[1]

Name (English)	Name (Chinese)	Tenure begins	Tenure ends	Note
Hollington Tong	董顯光	1952	1956	^[1]
Shen Jinding	沈觐鼎	1956	1959	^[1]
Chang Li-sheng	張厲生	1959	1963	^[1]
Wei Tao-ming	魏道明	1959	1963	^[1]
Cheng Zhimai	陳之邁	1966	1969	^[1]
Peng Mengji	彭孟緝	1969	1972	^[1]

Name (English)	Name (Chinese)	Tenure begins	Tenure ends	Note
Chen Chu	陈楚	April 1973	December 1976	^[3]
Fu Hao	符浩	August 1977	February 1982	^[3]
Song Zhiguang	宋之光	March 1982	August 1985	^[3]
Zhang Shu	章曙	September 1985	June 1988	^[3]
Yang Zhenya	杨振亚	January 1988	March 1993	^[3]
Xu Dunxin	徐敦信	December 1992	June 1998	^[3]
Chen Jian	陈健	April 1998	July 2001	^[3]
Wu Dawei	武大伟	July 2001	August 2004	^[3]
Wang Yi	王毅	September 2004	September 2007	^[3]
Cui Tiankai	崔天凯	September 2007	January 2010	^[3]
Cheng Yonghua	程永华	February 2010	May 2019	^[3]
Kong Xuanyou	孔铉佑	May 2019	February 2023	^[3]
Wu Jianghao	吴江浩	February 2023		^[4]

v t e China's Ambassadors to Japan
Qing dynasty 1644–1912	He Ruzhang 1876–1877 Zhang Sigui 1877–1880 Xu Jingcheng 1880–1881 Li Shuchang 1881–1884 Xu Chengzu 1884–1887 Li Xingrui 1887 Li Shuchang 1887–1890 Li Jingfang 1890–1892 Wang Fangzao 1892–1894 Yugeng 1895–1898 Huang Zunxian 1898 Li Shengduo 1898–1901 Cai Juni 1901–1903 Yang Shu 1903–1907 Li Jiaju 1907–1908 Hu Weide 1908–1910 Wang Daxie 1910–1913
Republic of China (Beiyang) 1912–1928	Ma Tingliang 1913 Zhong Lu 1913–1916 Liu Chongjie 1916 Zhang Zongxiang 1916–1919 Liu Jingren 1919–1920 Hu Weide 1920–1922 Shi Luben 1922–1923 Zhang Yuanjie 1925–1926
Republic of China (Nationalist) 1928–1938	Jiang Zuobin 1931–1936 Xu Shiying 1936–1938
Republic of China (Collaborationist) 1940–1945	Chu Minyi 1940–1941 Xu Liang 1941–1943 Cai Pei 1943–1945 Lian Yu 1945
Republic of China on Taiwan 1952–1972	Hollington Tong 1952–1956 Shen Jinding 1956–1959 Chang Li-sheng 1959–1963 Wei Tao-ming 1964–1966 Cheng Zhimai 1966–1969 Peng Mengji 1969–1972
People's Republic of China 1973–present	Chen Chu 1973–76 Fu Hao 1977–82 Song Zhiguang 1982–85 Zhang Shu 1985–83 Yang Zhenya 1988–93 Xu Dunxin 1993–98 Chen Jian 1998–2001 Wu Dawei 2001–04 Wang Yi 2004–07 Cui Tiankai 2007–09 Cheng Yonghua 2010–19 Kong Xuanyou 2019–2023 Wu Jianghao 2023-present