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{{Short description|Japanese diplomat (1936–2022)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| name               = Makoto Watanabe
| native_name        = 渡辺 允
| native_name_lang   = ja
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| office             = Ambassador of Japan to Jordan
| term_start         = 1988
| term_end           = 1990
| predecessor        = Kira Nakayama
| successor          = Tadashi Nonoyama
| office2            = Director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
| term_start2        = 1993
| term_end2          = 1995
| predecessor2       = Junichi Nakamura
| successor2         = Kunisada Kume
| office3            = Grand Chamberlain of Japan
| term_start3        = 1996
| term_end3          = 2007
| predecessor3       = [[Yamamoto Satoru]]
| successor3         = [[Kawashima Yutaka]]
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1936|5|9|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Tokyo Prefecture]], [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2022|2|8|1936|5|9|df=y}}
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| alma_mater         = [[University of Tokyo]]
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{{nihongo|'''Makoto Watanabe'''|渡辺 允|Watanabe Makoto|9 May 1936 – 8 February 2022}} was a Japanese diplomat.
==Biography==
Watanabe was born in [[Tokyo]], as a son of [[Akira Watanabe (Scouting)|Akira Watanabe]]. He attended [[Hibiya High School]] and graduated from the [[University of Tokyo]]. He joined the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] in 1959. He was Ambassador of Japan to [[Jordan]] from 1988 to 1990. He was Grand [[Chamberlain of Japan]] from 1996 to 2007 and director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan from 1993 to 1995. He was an adviser to the [[Imperial Household Agency]] from 2012 on.
He was strongly opposed to the publication of the book [[Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne]] in 2007 and said the Imperial Household Agency could not accept it.<ref>Imperial Household Agency: [http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/e-kunaicho/taio-20070202-l.html A letter from the Imperial Household Agency]</ref>
Watanabe died on 8 February 2022, at the age of 85.<ref>[https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUE082Y00Y2A200C2000000/ 渡辺允氏が死去　元侍従長、平成期に上皇ご夫妻支える] {{in lang|ja}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:1936 births]]
[[Category:2022 deaths]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of Japan to Jordan]]
[[Category:People from Tokyo]]
[[Category:University of Tokyo alumni]]