Caroline Kennedy to be ambassador to Japan Posted at 08:00 AM ET, 04/01/2013 TheWashingtonPost Caroline Kennedy will be the U.S. ambassador to Japan. (Mary Altaffer - AP) Looks like there will be a Camelot East - make that Far East: Caroline Kennedy is heading to Tokyo to be the U.S. ambassador. Kennedy, whose support for President Obama during his 2008 campaign was seen as crucial, had been widely talked about as a candidate for the plum diplomatic post, but now things have apparently been firmed up. The move, which her office did not return a call about, is almost certain to thrill the Japanese, who like their American ambassadors to be superstars. Kennedy's predecessors include luminaries like legendary Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield, former vice president Walter Mondale, former House speaker Tom Foley, and former Senate majority leader Howard Baker. We hear that her husband Edwin Schlossberg, who owns a New York-based design firm, won't be joining her full-time in Tokyo.