After acceding to the throne of Japan in December 1926, Emperor Hirohito received a total of 72 state visits. The state banquets were given by the Emperor at Tokyo Imperial Palace.
List of visits No. DateCountryRegime Guests1930s 1 6–24 April 1935 Manchukuo Monarchy Emperor Puyi1940s 2 26 June – 6 July 1940 Manchukuo Monarchy Emperor Puyi1950s 3 19–28 November 1956 Monarchy Emperor Haile Selassie 4 19 May – 1 June 1958 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi 5 27 September – 4 October 1958 Republic President Rajendra Prasad 6 1–6 December 1958 President Carlos P. GarciaFirst Lady Leonila Garcia 7 6–10 June 1959 President Sukarno1960s 8 18–25 April 1960 Monarchy King MahendraQueen Ratna 9 12–19 December 1960 Republic President Ayub Khan 10 10–16 May 1961 President Manuel Prado UgartecheFirst Lady Clorinda Málaga de Prado 11 13–21 December 1961 President Arturo FrondiziFirst Lady Elena Luisa María Faggionato 12 11–14 October 1962 President Adolfo López MateosFirst Lady Eva Sámano 13 27 May – 5 June 1963 Monarchy King Bhumibol AdulyadejQueen Sirikit 14 6–15 November 1963 Republic President Heinrich LübkeMme Wilhelmine Lübke 15 20–30 January 1964 Monarchy King BaudouinQueen Fabiola 16 16–25 June 1964 Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) Putra of PerlisRaja Permaisuri Agong (Queen) Raja Perempuan Budriah 17 15–23 November 1965 MadagascarRepublic President Philibert TsirananaFirst Lady Justine Tsiranana 18 19–26 September 1966 Burma Chairman of the Revolutionary Council Ne WinFirst Lady Khin May Than 19 28 September – 3 October 1966 President Ferdinand MarcosFirst Lady Imelda Marcos 20 28 March – 1 April 1968 President SuhartoFirst Lady Siti Hartinah 21 8–15 April 1968 President Josip Broz TitoFirst Lady Jovanka Broz 22 9–15 April 1969 Monarchy King Mohammad Zahir ShahQueen Humaira Begum1970s 23 6–15 April 1971 Republic President Mobutu Sese SekoFirst Lady Marie-Antoinette Mobutu 24 20–25 May 1971 Monarchy King Faisal 25 9–14 March 1972 Republic President Luis EcheverríaFirst Lady María Esther Zuno 26 14–20 April 1972 President Alfredo Stroessner 27 18–22 November 1974 President Gerald FordFirst Lady Betty Ford 28 4–9 April 1975 President Nicolae CeaușescuFirst Lady Elena Ceaușescu 29 7–12 May 1975 Monarchy Queen Elizabeth IIPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 30 10–16 March 1976 King Hussein of JordanQueen Alia Toukan 31 15–20 September 1976 Republic President Ernesto GeiselFirst Lady Lucy Markus Geisel 32 25–28 April 1977 President Ferdinand MarcosFirst Lady Imelda Marcos 33 13–18 March 1978 Chairman of the State Council Todor Zhivkov 34 5–9 April 1978 President Ziaur RahmanFirst Lady Khaleda Zia 35 16–21 April 1978 President Walter ScheelMme Mildred Scheel 36 15–21 May 1978 Monarchy King BirendraQueen Aishwarya of Nepal 37 30 October – 4 November 1978 Republic President José López PortilloFirst Lady Carmen Romano 38 16–22 April 1979 President Léopold Sédar SenghorFirst Lady Colette Senghor 39 24–27 June 1979 President Jimmy CarterFirst Lady Rosalynn Carter 40 10–15 September 1979 President J. R. JayewardeneFirst Lady Elina Jayewardene 41 8–12 October 1979 President Jorge Rafael VidelaFirst Lady Alicia Raquel Hartridge1980s 42 23–28 March 1980 Republic President Arístides RoyoFirst Lady Adela Ruiz de Royo 43 13–19 April 1980 Monarchy King Carl XVI GustafQueen Silvia 44 27 May – 1 June 1980 Republic Premier Hua Guofeng 45 17–20 September 1980 President Kenneth KaundaFirst Lady Betty Kaunda 46 27–31 October 1980 Monarchy King Juan Carlos IQueen Sofía 47 17–22 March 1981 Republic President Julius NyerereFirst Lady Maria Nyerere 48 21–26 April 1981 Monarchy Queen Margrethe IIPrince Henrik 49 26–31 May 1981 Republic Chairman of the State Council Erich Honecker 50 9–15 March 1982 President Sandro Pertini 51 5–9 April 1982 President Daniel arap Moi 52 14–18 April 1982 President François MitterrandMme Danielle Mitterrand 53 5–9 April 1983 President Hosni MubarakFirst Lady Suzanne Mubarak 54 17–22 July 1983 President Zia-ul-HaqFirst Lady Shafiq Zia 55 11–17 September 1983 President Patrick HilleryFirst Lady Maeve Hillery 56 18–23 October 1983 Monarchy King Olav V 57 9–12 November 1983 Republic President Ronald ReaganFirst Lady Nancy Reagan 58 5–7 April 1984 Monarchy King Hassanal BolkiahQueen Saleha 59 22–29 April 1984 Emir Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani 60 23–27 May 1984 Republic President João FigueiredoFirst Lady Dulce Figueiredo 61 1–11 July 1984 Burma President San YuFirst Lady Than Shein 62 6–8 September 1984 President Chun Doo-hwanFirst Lady Lee Soon-ja 63 18–21 September 1984 President Omar BongoFirst Lady Patience Dabany 64 19–22 June 1985 President Hussain Muhammad ErshadFirst Lady Rowshan Ershad 65 13–17 July 1986 President Raúl AlfonsínFirst Lady María Lorenza Barreneche 66 16–19 September 1986 President Seyni Kountché 67 30 September – 5 October 1986 President Mauno KoivistoFirst Lady Tellervo Koivisto 68 10–13 November 1986 President Corazon Aquino 69 30 November – 4 December 1986 President Miguel de la MadridFirst Lady Paloma Cordero 70 28 June – 2 July 1987 Chairman of the Council of State Wojciech JaruzelskiFirst Lady Barbara Jaruzelska 71 5–9 April 1988 President Jaime Lusinchi 72 28 June – 2 July 1988 President Abdou DioufFirst Lady Elizabeth Diouf
Countries that made state visits Countries State visits Notes 1 Monarchy abolished in 1973. 3 2 1 2 1 1 Burma 2 1 1 1 1 1 Monarchy abolished in 1975. 1 1 1 1 2 1 Monarchy abolished in 1979. 1 1 1 1 Madagascar 1 1 2 4 2 Monarchy abolished in 2008. 1 1 2 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 1 Now called Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1
See also List of state visits received by Akihito List of state visits received by Naruhito List of official overseas trips made by Akihito List of official overseas trips made by Naruhito
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