November 20, 2009 President Obama’s bow to the emperor
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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...
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,...
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....
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...
What leads people to settle in another country and do you end up feeling like a foreigner in your home country?...
There have been quite a few articles in the Japanese media recently about "vegetarian" soshokukei Japanese men...
Tokyo Metro put up posters to remind Japanese travellers of hitherto unspoken etiquette...
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....
My journey from teenage artist and ukiyoe fan to employee at a Japanese bank in Tokyo, setting the stage for my career in cross-cultural communications....
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