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Japanese multinational companies have been slow to adapt their business practices to make the most of globalization. One way for Japanese companies to enhance their global competitiveness is to utilize expertise from outside Japan… Read More

Rochelle Kopp, of Chicago-based Japan Intercultural Consulting and a longtime adviser to men and women dealing with Japan, doubts whether having a Kennedy in Tokyo is going to resonate with most Japanese women. Read More

While exchange of favors and mutual aid are common to all cultures, there are some differences in the way Japanese and Americans view these things. Read More

If the U.S. wants to choose a female Ambassador to Japan who will serve as a role model to inspire Japanese women to pursue careers and stick with them, a better choice might be a woman who has put in her time and worked her way up the ladder at the State Department. Read More

"A messy desk is the sign of a creative mind" This shows a typical American attitude that "neatness" is something divorced from "getting things done" -- quite opposite from the Japanese feeling that it's difficult to work productively in a messy space. Read More

In Japan, women do not have the same role in the workplace as women in the United States…As Japanese companies have increased their M&A activity in the U.S. recently, I have been hearing these kinds of concerns from American women frequently… Read More

There was no business strategy reason, or other explanation…Just doing it because all our competitors were, and we didn't want to be the only one not doing it… I'm not sure who was more flabbergasted…

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Once one has become familiar with reading and writing A3 reports, they can certainly increase efficiency…any employee can pick up a report from anywhere else in the company and immediately understand the key points it is trying to convey. Read More

Japanese tend to not want praise for things that they think are not perfect and still need work…Given this negative meaning of compliments, it makes sense that Japanese might feel uncomfortable getting them.

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I don’t happen to have children, but I imagine that if I did I wouldn’t need a recorded voice to tell me that I needed to hold their hands on an escalator. And if I were a senior citizen, I would want to make my own choice about whether I thought I needed to have my hand held.

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