Last Updated: 24 Jan 2025 Liens de loyauté selon le système sempai/kohai
La dynamique sempai/kohai (senior/junior) affecte profondément le fonctionnement des entreprises japonaises...
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Last Updated: 15 Jul 2020 Public criticism from Japanese managers
Non-Japanese employees of Japanese firms frequently mention the penchant that many Japanese managers have for public criticism. Whereas Americans would prefer to receive negative feedback in private, Japanese seem...
Last Updated: 15 Jul 2020 Strategic alliances with Japanese firms: making them work
There are any number of reasons why a strategic alliance may be unsuccessful....
Last Updated: 15 Jul 2020 Why do Japanese take so long to make decisions?
Japanese are conscious of time and particularly deadlines, but tend not to feel the need to rush things unnecessarily…The traditional Japanese approach to change and decision-making is increasingly out of...
Last Updated: 15 Jul 2020 Japanese and American attitudes toward risk
Different structures and incentives of the business environments in Japan and the U.S. also have a major impact on attitudes toward risk. Americans are comfortable charging forward even if...
Last Updated: 15 Jul 2020 Women working with the Japanese
The number of women in professional and managerial positions in Japan has been rising significantly in recent years. In the past there may have been instances of Japanese who...
Last Updated: 15 Jul 2020 Are Japanese secretive?
Japanese seldom intentionally try to hide things from non-Japanese colleagues, but they often inadvertently create that impression through various habits and communication style differences....
Last Updated: 16 Jul 2020 Why don’t Japanese like training?
In Japan training is viewed as impractical and not relevant, individually-oriented and thus selfish....
Last Updated: 31 May 2025 Japanese executive communication skills
Japanese executives tend to just sit at their desks in their offices. They don’t make the effort to walk around and talk to people. They don’t do anything...
Last Updated: 12 Jul 2020 Top Tips for Japanese Localization
In this guest blog post, Acclaro's Hiroko Yuki discusses some of the key things to consider when commissioning a translation into Japanese....