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Accompanying this, the political adviser's office in Sapporo was closed, and the U.S. Consulate in Sapporo (Consulate of the United States in Sapporo, U.S. Consulate Sapporo) was inaugurated. This was the first establishment of a U.S. consular office in Hokkaido in 34 years and the very first U.S. consulate in Sapporo in history.
The following is a list of the consular districts of the United States. Such districts are designated by the Secretary of State as per Section 312(c) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3952(c)). [1]
Along with consulates in Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, and Naha, the embassy provides assistance to American citizens and residents who live in Japan and issues visas to Japanese nationals, and legal residents in Japan who wish to visit or immigrate to the United States. The current ambassador is Rahm Emanuel, who assumed office on March 25 ...
Consulate-General 2011 [33] Sweden: Consulate-General 2008 [citation needed] Otaru Soviet Union: Vice-Consulate 1938 [34] Sapporo Australia: Consulate 2019 [35] Shimoda United States: Consulate-General: 1859 [36] Shimonoseki United Kingdom: Consulate 1940 [37] Yokohama Mexico: Consulate 1941 [38] United Kingdom: Consulate: 1972 United States ...
U.S. Department of State Facilities and Areas of Jurisdictions. The United States has the second largest number of active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, [1] including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries, as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023 [2]).
Beginning in 1854 with the use of gunboat diplomacy by Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the U.S. has maintained diplomatic relations with Japan, except for the ten-year period between the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (and the subsequent declaration of war on Japan by the United States) and the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco, which normalized relations between the United States and Japan.
A. Embassy of the United States, Abu Dhabi; Embassy of the United States, Accra; Embassy of the United States, Addis Ababa; American Library (New Delhi)
In 1961, the Kobe consulate was elevated to the U.S. Consulate-General in Kobe. [3] In 1987, the consulate in Kobe was relocated to Osaka, initiating its operations as the Consulate-General of the United States in Osaka-Kobe. [4] On January 1, 1985, a bomb-related terrorist incident occurred in Chuo Ward, Kobe.