Haron Amin

Mohammad Haron Amin (Dari: هارون امین‎; July 19, 1969 – February 14, 2015) was the Afghan ambassador to Japan from 2004–2009. He is also known for his role as spokesman for the Northern Alliance during the U.S.-led invasion of his country after the events of September 11, 2001.

A consistent presence in American media prior to the Taliban's collapse in 2001, Amin was appointed chargé d'affaires to the United States by the interim Afghan government on January 14, 2002, led by Hamid Karzai. He was the highest-ranking Afghan diplomat in Washington for a year-long period in 2002–03, before being appointed by President Karzai as his country's first ambassador to Japan on 30 April 2004. his Tajik family fled Afghanistan one year after the Soviet invasion of 1979, eventually settling in the U.S. At the time of the 9/11 attacks, Amin was serving as a diplomat of the Afghan mission to the United Nations.

Amin was distinguished in 2002 as one of 77 "People for the Future" in Newsweek. The book centers on historical relations and similarities between Japan and Afghanistan, and is the first to directly compare Afghanistan's and Japan's past and cultural heritage.