The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a cabinet level ministry of Japan responsible for the country's foreign relations. The ministry was established by the second term of the third article of the National Government Organization Act, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Establishment Act. According to the law, its chief is a minister of the cabinet, and its mission is to aim at improvement of the profits of Japan and Japanese nationals, while contributing to maintenance of peaceful and safe international society, and, through an active and eager measure, both to implement good international environment and to keep and develop harmonic foreign relationships.

 

Main Branches

• Minister's Secretariat
• Chief of Protocol
• Secretariat for the Japan APEC Meetings in 2010
• Press Secretary/Director-General for Press and Public Relations
• Public Diplomacy Department
• Foreign Policy Bureau
• Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department
• Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau
• Southeast and Southwest Asian Affairs Department
• North American Affairs Bureau
• Latin American and Caribbean Affairs Bureau
• European Affairs Bureau
• Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau
• Director-General for Sub-Saharan African Affairs
• Economic Affairs Bureau
• International Cooperation Bureau
• Director-General for Global Issues
• International Legal Affairs Bureau
• Consular Affairs Bureau
• Intelligence and Analysis Service
• Foreign Service Training Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs