About Kōji Tsuruoka
Born 1952. Kōji Tsuruoka is a Japanese diplomat.
is a Japanese diplomat. He served as the Japanese ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019.
Biography Tsuruoka was born 10 August 1952. His father was a Japanese diplomat who served as Ambassador to the United Nations. He received a BA in Law from the University of Tokyo and an LLM from Harvard Law School. He joined the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1976. He then worked in the International Legal Affairs Bureau until 2010. He was Deputy Vice Minister for Foreign Policy from 2010 to 2012 and then Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2013.
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Kōji Tsuruoka was born on 10 August 1952 in Tokyo.
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