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Embassy of Japan, Kingston

Japanese embassy in Jamaica

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ112625431 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Embassy of Japan in Kingston is the official diplomatic mission of Japan in Jamaica, and is also accredited to Belize and The Bahamas. Its current ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary is Yasuhiro Atsumi.

The embassy sponsors cultural events such as cosplay competitions and film festivals. In August 2023, it announced that it will invest J$50 million in the construction of a Japanese garden at the Hope Botanical Gardens in St. Andrew.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Embassy, Japan and Kingston providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Embassy of Japan, Kingston” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.