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The state funeral of Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa), the 124th Emperor of Japan, was attended by a significant number of dignitaries from Japan, 163 foreign countries and 27 international institutions. The funeral on 24 February 1989 comprised a series of religious and state ceremonies at the Shinjuku Gyo-en in Tokyo.

700 foreign dignitaries participated in the event, which was attended by roughly 10,000 official guests in total. They included nine monarchs, 33 presidents, 13 prime ministers, and members of the diplomatic corps in Japan.^[1] This made it the largest gathering of international leaders at that time for a state funeral, surpassing that of Josip Broz Tito in 1980. It would stand for the next 16 years until Pope John Paul II's funeral in 2005.

Japan

Imperial House

The late Emperor's descendants:

The Emperor and Empress, the late Emperor's son and daughter-in-law
- The Crown Prince, the late Emperor's grandson
- The Prince Aya, the late Emperor's grandson
- The Princess Nori, the late Emperor's granddaughter
The Former Princess Yori and Takamasa Ikeda, the late Emperor's daughter and son-in-law
The Prince and Princess Hitachi, the late Emperor's son and daughter-in-law
The Former Princess Suga and Hisanaga Shimazu, the late Emperor's daughter and son-in-law

Other descendants of Emperor Taishō:

The Princess Takamatsu, the late Emperor's sister-in-law
The Prince and Princess Mikasa, the late Emperor's brother and sister-in-law
- Former Princess Yasuko of Mikasa and Tadateru Konoe, the late Emperor's niece and nephew-in-law
- Prince and Princess Tomohito of Mikasa, the late Emperor's nephew and niece-in-law
- Former Princess Masako of Mikasa and Masayuki Sen, the late Emperor's niece and nephew-in-law
- The Prince and Princess Takamado, the late Emperor's nephew and niece-in-law

Imperial Household

Politicians

Noboru Takeshita, Prime Minister of Japan
Kenzaburo Hara, Speaker of the House of Representatives
Yoshihiko Tsuchiya [ja], President of the House of Councillors
Koichi Yaguchi, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Hitoshi Motoshima, Mayor of Nagasaki^[2]

International

Information as compiled by Kyodo News agency and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Royalty

Members of reigning royal houses

Sheikh Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa (representing the Emir of Bahrain)
The King and Queen of the Belgians
The King of Bhutan
The Sultan of Brunei
Prince Sufri Bolkiah of Brunei
Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei
The Prince Consort of Denmark (representing the Queen of Denmark)
The King of Jordan
The King of Lesotho
The Hereditary Prince and Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein (representing the Prince of Liechtenstein)
The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
The Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong and Deputy Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia (representing the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia)
The Hereditary Prince of Monaco (representing the Prince of Monaco)
The Crown Prince of Morocco (representing the King of Morocco)
Prince Gyanendra of Nepal (representing the King of Nepal)
The Crown Prince of Norway (representing the King of Norway)
Sayyid Thuwaini bin Shihab Al Said of Oman (representing the Sultan of Oman)
Sheikh Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani of Qatar, State Minister for Foreign Affairs (representing the Emir of Qatar)
Prince Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia (representing the King of Saudi Arabia)
The King and Queen of Spain
Prince Sotsha Dlamini of Swaziland, Prime Minister (representing the King of Swaziland)
The King and Queen of Sweden
The Crown Prince of Thailand (representing the King of Thailand)
The King and Queen of Tonga
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (representing the President of the United Arab Emirates)
The Duke of Edinburgh (representing the Queen of the United Kingdom)

Members of non-reigning royal houses

Prince Norodom Ranariddh and Princess Norodom Marie of Cambodia (representing Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia)

Heads of state and government

Hussain Muhammad Ershad, President of Bangladesh
José Sarney, President of Brazil, and First Lady Marly Sarney
Pierre Buyoya, President of Burundi
George Vassiliou, President of Cyprus
Barkat Gourad Hamadou, Prime Minister of Djibouti
Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt
Fikre Selassie Wogderess, Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, President of Fiji, and Lady Bale Ganilau
Mauno Koivisto, President of Finland, and First Lady Tellervo Koivisto
François Mitterrand, President of France
Sir Dawda Jawara, President of The Gambia
Richard von Weizsäcker, President of West Germany
Jerry Rawlings, Chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council of Ghana
Christos Sartzetakis, President of Greece, and First Lady Efrosyni Argyriou
João Bernardo Vieira, President of the Council of State of Guinea-Bissau, and First Lady Isabel Romana Vieira
José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras, and First Lady Miriam Bocock
Brunó Ferenc Straub, President of the Presidential Council of Hungary
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
Ramaswamy Venkataraman, President of India, and First Lady Janaki Venkataraman
Suharto, President of Indonesia, and First Lady Siti Hartinah
Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland
Chaim Herzog, President of Israel
Francesco Cossiga, President of Italy
Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives
John Haglelgam, President of Micronesia, and First Lady Paula Ori
Hammer DeRoburt, President of Nauru
Mamane Oumarou, Prime Minister of Niger
Ibrahim Babangida, President of Nigeria
Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, and Asif Ali Zardari
Manuel Solís Palma, Acting President of Panama
Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines
Mário Soares, President of Portugal
Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore, and Kwa Geok Choo
Chatichai Choonhavan, Prime Minister of Thailand
Gnassingbé Eyadéma, President of Togo
Hédi Baccouche, Prime Minister of Tunisia
Turgut Özal, Prime Minister of Turkey, and Semra Özal
Samson Kisekka, Prime Minister of Uganda
George H. W. Bush, President of the United States, and First Lady Barbara Bush
Fred Timakata, President of Vanuatu
Malietoa Tanumafili II, O le Ao o le Malo of Western Samoa
Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire, and First Lady Bobi Ladawa Mobutu
Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia

Deputies

Governors-general

Bill Hayden, Governor-General of Australia, and Dallas Broadfoot
Jeanne Sauvé, Governor General of Canada, and Maurice Sauvé
Sir Paul Reeves, Governor-General of New Zealand, and Beverly, Lady Reeves
Sir Kingsford Dibela, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea, and Lady Dibela
Sir George Lepping, Governor-General of Solomon Islands, and Margaret, Lady Lepping
Sir Tupua Leupena, Governor-General of Tuvalu

Other deputies to heads of state

Víctor Hipólito Martínez, Vice President of Argentina
Julio Garrett, Vice President of Bolivia
Petar Tanchev, First Vice President of the State Council of Bulgaria
Carlos Morales Troncoso, Vice President of the Dominican Republic, and Luisa Alba de Morales
Manfred Gerlach, Vice Chairman of the Council of State of East Germany
Hamilton Green, First Vice President and Prime Minister of Guyana
Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf, Vice President of Iraq
Teatao Teannaki, Vice President of Kiribati
Kang Young Hoon, Prime Minister of South Korea
Harry Moniba, Vice President of Liberia
Kazimierz Barcikowski, Vice President of the Council of State of Poland
Manea Mănescu, Vice President of the State Council of Romania
Anatoly Lukyanov, First Vice Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Idris Al Banna [ar], Vice President of the Supreme Council of Sudan
Joseph Warioba, First Vice President and Prime Minister of Tanzania
Lê Quang Đạo, Vice President of the State Council and Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam
Stane Dolanc, Vice President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
Simon Muzenda, Vice President of Zimbabwe

Deputies to heads of government

Pavol Hrivnák, First Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
José Ramón Fernández, Vice President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba
Georges Rawiri, First Deputy Prime Minister of Gabon
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs of West Germany
Mostafa Mir-Salim, Vice President of Iran
Phoun Sipaseuth, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Laos
Eurico de Melo [pt], Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of Portugal
Salim Yasin, Deputy Prime Minister of Syria

Foreign ministers

Afonso Van-Dúnem, Minister of External Relations of Angola (representing the President of Angola)
Alois Mock, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria (representing the President of Austria)
Leo Tindemans, Minister of External Relations of Belgium
Guy Landry Hazoume, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Benin
Dawa Tsering, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bhutan
Gaositwe Chiepe, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Botswana (representing the President of Botswana)
Abreu Sodré, Minister of External Relations of Brazil
Domba Jean-Marc Palm, Minister of External Relations of Burkina Faso
Silvino Manuel da Luz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cape Verde (representing the President of Cape Verde)
Michel Gbezera Bria, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic (representing the President of the Central African Republic)
Hernán Felipe Errázuriz [es], Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile (representing the President of Chile)
Qian Qichen, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (representing the President of the People's Republic of China)
Said Kafe, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Comoros
Antoine Ndinga Oba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of the Congo (representing the President of the People's Republic of the Congo)
Rodrigo Madrigal Nieto, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica (representing the President of Costa Rica)
Ricardo Acevedo Peralta [Wikidata], Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador (representing the President of El Salvador)
Roland Dumas, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France
Omar Sey, Minister of External Affairs of The Gambia
Jean Traoré, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea (representing the President of Guinea)
Carlos López Contreras, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Honduras
P. V. Narasimha Rao, Minister of External Affairs of India
Robert Ouko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kenya
Saud Al-Osaimi [ar], Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Kuwait (representing the Emir of Kuwait)
Adrianaribone Jean Bemananjara, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Madagascar (representing the President of Madagascar)
Abu Hassan Omar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia
Fathulla Jameel, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Maldives
Ċensu Tabone, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta
Tom Kijiner [Wikidata], Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Marshall Islands (representing the President of the Marshall Islands)
Mohamed Sidina Ould Sidiya, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mauritania (representing the President of Mauritania)
Abdellatif Filali, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Morocco
Hans van den Broek, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
Russell Marshall, Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand
Ike Nwachukwu, Minister of External Affairs of Nigeria
Thorvald Stoltenberg, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway
Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan
Jorge Eduardo Ritter, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama
Luis María Argaña, Minister of External Affairs of Paraguay (representing the President of Paraguay)
Raul Manglapus, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines
Ibrahima Fall, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Senegal (representing the President of Senegal)
Abdul Karim Koroma, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sierra Leone (representing the President of Sierra Leone)
René Felber, head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland
Sir Geoffrey Howe, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom
James Baker, United States Secretary of State
Luis Barrios Tassano, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay (representing the President of Uruguay)
Enrique Tejera París [es], Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela (representing the President of Venezuela)

Other national representatives

Rabah Bitat, Speaker of the National People's Assembly of Algeria (representing the President of Algeria)
Romain Vilon Guézo [fr], President of the Permanent Committee of the National Revolutionary Assembly of Benin (representing the President of Benin)
Seigo Tsuzuki [pt], Minister of Health of Brazil
Bukarii Mahamadu Gabriel of Burkina Faso (representing the President of Burkina Faso)
U Pe Thein, Minister for Health and Education of Burma (representing the Chairman of the State Law and Order Restoration Council of Burma)
- U Tha Tun, Attorney-General of Burma
Lawrence Fonka Shang, President of the National Assembly of Cameroon (representing the President of Cameroon)
John Crosbie, Minister of International Trade of Canada
Carolina Isakson Proctor, First Lady of Colombia (representing the President of Colombia)
Salim Ben Ali, former Prime Minister of the Comoros and President of Grande Comore (representing the President of the Comoros)
Fernando Naranjo, Minister of Finance and Public Treasury of Costa Rica
Arnaldo Torriente Gutiérrez, member of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba
Takis Nemitsas, Minister of Commerce and Industry of Cyprus
Palle Simonsen [da], Minister of Finance of Denmark
Gil Barragán [es], President of the Supreme Court of Ecuador (representing the President of Ecuador)
Ali Bongo, son of the President of Gabon
Tsatsu Tsikata, Minister of State of Ghana
Claudia Arenas Bianchi, Secretary of Public Relations of the Presidency of Guatemala (representing the President of Guatemala)
Manuel dos Santos, Minister of Trade and Tourism of Guinea-Bissau
Antony Virginie Saint-Pierre, Minister of Information and Coordination of Haiti (representing the President of Haiti)
Cardinal Silvio Oddi of the Holy See (representing the Pope)
Gábor Nagy, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary
Camille Alliali, Minister of State of Ivory Coast (representing the President of Ivory Coast)
Robert Goebbels, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg
Maxwell Pashane, Minister without Portfolio of Malawi (representing the President of Malawi)
Oumar Ba, Minister of Justice of Mali (representing the President of Mali)
Madan Dulloo, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Resources of Mauritius
Cecilia Occelli, First Lady of Mexico (representing the President of Mexico)
Lodongiyn Rinchin [mn], Chairman of the People's Great Khural of Mongolia (representing the Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural of Mongolia)
Jacinto Veloso [pt], Minister of Cooperation of Mozambique (representing the President of Mozambique)
William Hüpper Argüello, Minister of Finance of Nicaragua (representing the President of Nicaragua)
Nabil Shaath, political adviser for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
Felipe Valdivieso Belaúnde, Vice Minister and Secretary General at the Ministry of External Relations of Peru (representing the President of Peru)
Jean-Marie Mugemana, Minister of the Interior and Community Development of Rwanda (representing the President of Rwanda)
Allan C. Cruickshank, Minister of Communications and Works of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines^{[note 1]}
Alberto Ferreira Chong [fr], Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of São Tomé and Príncipe (representing the President of São Tomé and Príncipe)
Jacques Hodoul, Minister of National Development of Seychelles (representing the President of Seychelles)
Mohamed Sheikh Osman, Minister of the Presidency for Economic Affairs of Somalia (representing the President of Somalia)
Virgilio Zapatero, Minister of Relations with the Cortes and Government Secretariat of Spain
J. R. Jayewardene, former President of Sri Lanka (representing the President of Sri Lanka)
Reginald Dhladhla, Minister of Justice of Swaziland
Kjell-Olof Feldt, Minister of Finance of Sweden
Barry Moussa Barque, Minister of Planning and Mines of Togo
Baron Vaea, Minister of Labour, Commerce and Industries of Tonga^{[note 2]}
Enele Sopoaga, Assistant Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Tuvalu
Patu Afaese, Minister of Education of Western Samoa
Saleh Abdullah Muthanna, Minister of Transport and Communications of South Yemen (representing the Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme People's Council of South Yemen)
Panji Kaunda, son of the President of Zambia

Other subnational representatives

Anglo B. Beda, Chairman of the Southern Sudan Council

Diplomatic corps

Unless otherwise noted, diplomats listed were accredited to Tokyo, Japan at the time of the funeral.

Justin Papajorgji [Wikidata], Ambassador of Albania^{[note 3]}
Yazid Zerhouni, Ambassador of Algeria
Maria Haller, Ambassador of Angola
Enrique Ros [es], Ambassador of Argentina
Geoff Miller, Ambassador of Australia
Michael Fitz, Ambassador of Austria
AKM Hedayetul Huq, Ambassador of Bangladesh
Patrick Nothomb, Ambassador of Belgium
Atlay Morales [nds], Belizean Ambassador to Mexico^{[note 3]}
Dasho Karma Letho, Ambassador of Bhutan
Arnold Hofman-Bang, Ambassador of Bolivia
Carlos Antônio Bettencourt Bueno [de], Ambassador of Brazil
Pengiran Dato Paduka Haji Idriss, Ambassador of Brunei
Stanislav Baev, Chargé d'affaires of Bulgaria
Hama Arba Diallo, Ambassador of Burkina Faso
U Ba Thwin, Ambassador of Burma
Barry Steers, Ambassador of Canada
Noël Eregani, Chargé d'affaires of the Central African Republic
Issa Abbas Ali, Ambassador of Chad^{[note 3]}
Gustavo Ponce Lerou, Ambassador of Chile
Yang Zhenya, Ambassador of China, and Han Qiufang
Fidel Duque Ramírez, Ambassador of Colombia
Ana Lucía Nassar Soto, Chargé d'affaires of Costa Rica
Amadeo Blanco Valdés-Fauly, Ambassador of Cuba
Rudolf Jakubik, Ambassador of Czechoslovakia
William Thune Andersen, Ambassador of Denmark
Rachad Ahmed Saleh Farah, Ambassador-designate of Djibouti
Alfonso Canto Dinzey, Ambassador of the Dominican Republic
Marcelo Avila Orejuela, Ambassador-designate of Ecuador
Wahib El Miniawy, Ambassador of Egypt
Ernesto Arrieta Peralta, Ambassador of El Salvador
Cándido Oyono Ela Eyang, Chargé d'affaires of Equatorial Guinea^{[note 3]}
Worku Moges, Ambassador of Ethiopia
Charles Walker, Ambassador of Fiji
Pauli Opas, Ambassador of Finland
Bernard Dorin [fr], Ambassador of France
Manfred Schmidt [de], Ambassador of East Germany
Hans-Joachim Hallier [de], Ambassador of West Germany
James Leslie Mayne Amissah, Ambassador of Ghana
Georgios Lianis, Ambassador of Greece
Manuel Evandro Palomo Peralta, Chargé d'affaires of Guatemala
Ivan B. Evelyn, Chargé d'affaires of Guyana
Fritznel Lafontant, Chargé d'affaires of Haiti
Archbishop William Aquin Carew, Apostolic Pro-nuncio of the Holy See
Aníbal Enrique Quiñónez Abarca, Ambassador of Honduras
András Forgács, Ambassador of Hungary
Arjun Gobindram Asrani, Ambassador of India
Yogi Supardi, Ambassador of Indonesia
Mohammad Hossein Adeli, Ambassador of Iran
Rashid M. S. Al-Rifai, Ambassador of Iraq
Sean G. Ronan, Ambassador of Ireland
Nahum Eshkol, Ambassador of Israel
Bartolomeo Attolico, Ambassador of Italy
Pierre Nelson Coffi, Ambassador of Ivory Coast
Khaled Madadha, Ambassador of Jordan
John D. Odede, Chargé d'affaires of Kenya
Lee Won-kyung [ko], Ambassador of South Korea
Abdel Aziz Abdullatif Al Sharekh, Ambassador of Kuwait
Souphanthaheuangsi Sisaleumsak, Ambassador of Laos
Samir Khoury, Ambassador of Lebanon^{[note 3]}
T.B. Moeketsi, Ambassador-designate of Lesotho
Stephen J. Koffa, Ambassador of Liberia
Taher Ali Marwan, Chargé d'affaires of Libya^{[note 3]}
Jean-Louis Wolzfeld [Wikidata], Ambassador of Luxembourg
J. A. Kamil, Ambassador of Malaysia
Abdoulaye Amadou Sy, Ambassador of Mali
Victor J. Gauci, Ambassador of Malta
Taki Ould Sidi, Ambassador of Mauritania
Florencio Acosta, Chargé d'affaires of Mexico
Ira E. Akapito, Head of the Liaison Office of Micronesia
Buyantyn Dashtseren, Ambassador of Mongolia
Abdelaziz Benjelloun [ar], Ambassador of Morocco
Lopes Tembe Ndelana, Ambassador of Mozambique
Theodore Conrad Moses, Consul-General of Nauru in Melbourne, Australia
Narayan Prasad Arjal, Ambassador of Nepal
Herman Posthumus Meyjes, Ambassador of the Netherlands
Rodney James Gates, Ambassador of New Zealand
Jorge Huezo Castrillo, Ambassador of Nicaragua
Seydou Bozari, Chargé d'affaires of Niger
Mai-Bukar Garba Dogon-Yaro, Ambassador of Nigeria
Håkon Wexelsen Freihow, Ambassador of Norway
Dawood bin Hamdan bin Abdullah Al Hamdan, Ambassador of Oman
Mansur Ahmad, Ambassador of Pakistan
Alberto Calvo Ponce, Ambassador of Panama
Sir Joseph Nombri, Ambassador of Papua New Guinea
Juan Carlos Hrase von Bargen, Ambassador of Paraguay
Luis José Macchiavello Amoros, Ambassador of Peru
Ramon V. del Rosario, Ambassador of the Philippines
Ryszard Frąckiewicz, Ambassador of Poland
José Eduardo de Melo Gouveia, Ambassador of Portugal
Mohammed Ali Al Ansari, Ambassador of Qatar
Constantin Vlad, Ambassador of Romania
Joseph Nizeyimana, Ambassador of Rwanda
Manlio Cadelo [ja], Honorary Consul-General of San Marino^{[note 3]}
Fawzi bin Abdul Majeed Shobokshi [de], Ambassador of Saudi Arabia
Kéba Birane Cissé, Ambassador of Senegal
Sheku Badara Bashiru Dumbuya, Ambassador-designate of Sierra Leone
Cheng Tong Fatt, Ambassador of Singapore
Hassan Abshir Farah, Ambassador of Somalia
Alexander Waldemar Kuhn, Consul-General of South Africa^{[note 3]}
Nikolay Solovyov [ru], Ambassador of the Soviet Union
Camilo Barcia García-Villamil, Ambassador of Spain
Karunasena Kodituwakku, Ambassador of Sri Lanka
Mohammed Abdel Dayim Basheer, Ambassador of Sudan
Cyrill Ramkisor [nl], Surinamese Ambassador to the Netherlands^{[note 3]}
Ove Heyman [sv], Ambassador of Sweden
Roger Bar, Ambassador of Switzerland
Jalal Al-Baroudi, Chargé d'affaires of Syria
Ali Said Mchumo, Ambassador of Tanzania
Birabhongse Kasemsri [th], Ambassador of Thailand
Yao Bloua Agbo, Ambassador of Togo
Premchand J. Dass, Trinidadian High Commissioner to India^{[note 3]}
Abdelhamid Ben Messaouda, Ambassador of Tunisia
Umut Arık [tr], Ambassador of Turkey
William Wycliffe Rwetsiba, Ambassador of Uganda
Hamad Salem Al-Maqami, Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates
Sir John Whitehead, Ambassador of the United Kingdom, and Lady Whitehead
L. Desaix Anderson, Chargé d'affaires of the United States
Alfredo Giro Pintos, Ambassador of Uruguay
Fernando Báez Duarte, Ambassador of Venezuela
Võ Văn Sung [vi], Ambassador of Vietnam
Mohamed Abdul Koddos Alwazir, Ambassador of North Yemen^{[note 3]}
Tarik Ajanović, Ambassador of Yugoslavia
Murairi Mitima Kaneno, Ambassador of Zaire
Boniface Zulu, Ambassador of Zambia
Robert Masango, Ambassador of Zimbabwe

International organizations

Michel Camdessus, managing director of the International Monetary Fund
Jean-Claude Paye, Secretary-General of the OECD
William Henry Draper III, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
Domingo Siazon Jr., Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, United Nations Secretary-General, and Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar
Hiroshi Nakajima, Director-General of the World Health Organization

Absences

The Empress Dowager, the late Emperor's wife, was unable to attend the ceremonies due to a back and leg illness.^[6]

Notes

^ Attending on behalf of the members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States.
^ Attending on behalf of the South Pacific Forum.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Headed the official delegation of their respective country.

References

^ Slavin, Stewart (24 February 1989). "Emperor Hirohito was laid to rest Friday at the..." United Press International. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
^ Schoenberger, Karl (24 February 1989). "World Leaders Pay Respects at Hirohito Rites". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021.
^ "Paying Respects: A Global Roll-Call". The New York Times. 24 February 1989. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
^ Slavin, Stewart (20 February 1989). "Attending Hirohito funeral a touchy issue". UPI. United Press International. Archived from the original on 2 September 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
^ Diplomatic Bluebook: Japan's Diplomatic Activities. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan. 1989. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
^ "World Leaders Bid Hirohito Farewell". Chicago Tribune. 24 February 1989. Retrieved 17 July 2024.

External links

Official list of foreign dignitaries

[6] Attending on behalf of the members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States.

[7] Attending on behalf of the South Pacific Forum.

[ambassador-8] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Headed the official delegation of their respective country.

[1] Slavin, Stewart (24 February 1989). "Emperor Hirohito was laid to rest Friday at the..." United Press International. Retrieved 17 July 2024.

[Schoenberger-2] Schoenberger, Karl (24 February 1989). "World Leaders Pay Respects at Hirohito Rites". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021.

[Paying_Respects-3] "Paying Respects: A Global Roll-Call". The New York Times. 24 February 1989. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2016.

[Slavin-4] Slavin, Stewart (20 February 1989). "Attending Hirohito funeral a touchy issue". UPI. United Press International. Archived from the original on 2 September 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.

[5] Diplomatic Bluebook: Japan's Diplomatic Activities. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan. 1989. Retrieved 17 July 2024.

[9] "World Leaders Bid Hirohito Farewell". Chicago Tribune. 24 February 1989. Retrieved 17 July 2024.

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