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Last Updated: 20 Nov 2009 President Obama’s bow to the emperor
My views on this controversial topic...
Last Updated: 18 Jul 2020 Long Working Hours in Japanese Companies
There is a disucssion in the Japan Intercultural Consulting Group on the problem of long working hours in Japanese companies both at home and abroad. Here is the historical...
Last Updated: 12 Jul 2020 Polish Your Emails and Improve Your Writing Skills
Imagine having a dedicated business-savvy editor and teacher, on-call to polish your writing. A professional writer who would improve what you’ve written, and explain their suggestions, creating a personalized,...
Last Updated: 12 Jul 2020 Why Myers Briggs was slow to catch on in Japan
My colleague William Erb has written an interesting article on why the Myers Briggs Type Indicator personality assessment took a while to catch on in Japan....
Last Updated: 12 Jul 2020 Introducing Silver Week (aka “don’t expect to get much work done in late September”)
Do you shake your head every May when all of corporate Japan grinds to a halt with Golden Week? Now there's another set of Japanese holidays to watch out...
Last Updated: 12 Jul 2020 Feeling foreign in your own country and liberated in other countries
What leads people to settle in another country and do you end up feeling like a foreigner in your home country?...
Last Updated: 12 Jul 2020 “Vegetarian” Japanese men
There have been quite a few articles in the Japanese media recently about "vegetarian" soshokukei Japanese men...
Last Updated: 12 Jul 2020 “manner posters” in Tokyo
Tokyo Metro put up posters to remind Japanese travellers of hitherto unspoken etiquette...
Last Updated: 12 Jul 2020 Introducing myself – how I ended up a Third Culture Kid
I don’t think my parents quite realised what an impact their decision to move to Japan when I was six years old would have on my life, even into adulthood....