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Next time you need to make a proposal to a Japanese person, see if you can draw it first....
My biggest concern about including honne and tatemae when explaining Japanese culture to non-Japanese is that it makes it sound like Japanese have a unique propensity to be liars...
For many Japanese, the only kind of management style they have ever experienced is one in which subordinates are treated harshly and no complaints are tolerated. . This...
Frequently, behavior that is tolerated in Japan is considered inappropriate in the U.S. Although only a small minority of Japanese businessmen engage in such behavior, when problems do happen...
Comments which are overlooked in Japan can be extremely inappropriate in the U.S. context, causing Japanese employees to stumble into sexual harassment. Also, Japanese managers may not know how...
In Japan, a subordinate would not consider his supervisor making changes to his work to be insulting at all. There is not the same sense of personal ownership of...
