Japanese Ambassador to the UK Koji Tsuruoka visited the Sony UK Technology Centre in Wales. According to a 20 June article in Business News Wales, this marked his first visit to the facility. Afterwards, Tsuruoka stopped by Tri-Wall Limited, a manufacturing firm in Monmouth, before attending a reception in celebration of the long-standing friendship between Wales and Japan. The reception, hosted by the Welsh government, is part of the kick-off of the Japan–UK Season of Culture 2019–20 initiative.
