The Japanese Company in Japan's Culture

This essay aims to provide more information in regards to the differences between the Australian and Japanese cultures, as well as fundamental insights into Japanese business etiquette and highlight important steps for effective communication when making business in a foreign country. As the Australian entrepreneur and owner of ‘The Aromatic Condiment Shop’ Emily is looking to expand her business deals in Japan it is paramount to make a favourable first impression and understand key points to better navigate cultural differences and grow her business.

In 1910, Japanese are banned from marrying non-Orientals and the practice of arranging for picture brides began. During the first two decades of the 1900s, more than 20,000 Japanese women arrived, more often than not as picture brides (Mei T. Nakano, p. 24). These women only knew their future

The cultural behaviors of the “American” or “Japanese” in the video do not accurately reflect business behaviors in these countries so please do not generalize based on the video. The video is meant as a classroom exercise to analyze a specific cultural encounter. Total 20 points.

Costco Wholesale Corporation operates an international chain of membership warehouses, which carries quality, brand name

In Japan, for all its business and technological skills, social values take priority over purely economic ones. Reid's interesting description of a new-employee ceremony at a large Japanese corporation, in this case the electronic giant NEC, highlights his celebration of how Confucian ritual dignifies life in the Japanese workplace.

More directly, Tsurumi states “for the majority of peasant families survival was impossible without women and their work” (Tsurumi, 16). This makes the importance of Japanese women to their households during the period of history prior to the Meiji Era indisputable. Nevertheless, even as familial roles changed during Japan’s shift to a money economy, the support women provided to their families remained steadfast, as the earnings they made at factories were often sent back to their homes to support their families. As the need for women to find jobs that could pay them in cash grew, the potential for women to help support their families, or the ability to reel “for the sake of the nation” attracted women and girls to the first silk reeling mill in Tomioka. Tsurumi affirms this by saying “service to the nation, family economic interest, or a combination of the two brought young women to Tomioka to become part of a proud elite striving both for national goals and for regional prosperity” (Tsurumi, 30). By portraying the act of working for a textile mill as a service to both their families and to their country, Tsurumi furthers the idea that the women of the time were heroes of their era. However, as

Numerous Japanese workers have depended on plantations owned by big corporations, they learned that they could not “advance themselves” through individualism and small business,” as on the mainland. Rather, as laborers, they adopted a strategy of “unionization, politics, and collective action.” Between the 1880s and the so-called Gentlemen’s Agreement in 1908, more than 150,000 Japanese came to the mainland. Those who immigrated to the mainland settled into a greater range of diverse economic positions, from farm labor and mining to shop-keeping and truck farming, than did those who immigrated to Hawaii. Some came under contract to employers, some under the auspices of relatives, and others on their

* Business culture: values, ideas, expectations and beliefs shared by the staff and managers of the business.

Ayako Komine speaks in depth about how Japanese immigration policy in settlement oriented. This meaning that immigrants are not encouraged to neither become citizens, nor stay in the country for and extended amount of time. The paper continues to discuss the types of immigrants Japan would accept into the country. Nikkeijin and Zainichi were described as the only type of immigrants Japan would take in that were considered t be unskilled, because they would increase labor while still allowing Japan to hold on to its homogeneity. It later discusses how Japan will accept skilled workers in order to increase certain aspects of it labor force such as the fields of science and engineering. What this paper showed was how japan has tried to balance taking in new immigrants into the country while trying to keep their homogeneity in place for

Hierarchy and status are considered highly important in both Japan and Mexico in addition to a strong separation between the work and home life. Both Mexico and Japan rely on strong work relationships and loyalty in addition to having top down style of commination and information flow. Both countries have a belief in collectivism over individualism, according to Hofstede’s Value Dimensions, with Japan slightly higher on the index, similarly for the masculinity index. The implications of these characteristics can be viewed in each countries’ management approach. These societal values and characteristics influence each countries’ business behavior and methodologies. (Deresky, 2014)

This paper provided an opportunity to take a deeper look into the country of Japan by conducting a Global Cultural Analysis. Throughout this paper the following four research areas were explored: 1.What is the major elements and dimensions of culture in Japan? 2. How are these elements and dimensions integrated by locals conducting business in Japan? 3. How does U.S. culture and business compare with the elements and dimensions of culture integrated by the locals conducting business in Japan? 4. What are the implications for U.S. businesses that wish to conduct business with Japan?

Both societies, moreover, have developed the art of business and commerce, of buying and selling, of advertising and mass producing, to the highest levels. Few sights are more reassuring to people from the United States than the tens of thousands of busy stores in Japan,

Culture is a very important value that is often misconstrued with a foreign country. You have to understand the local law and its role in their society. Americans often think that because Japan has very little litigation, Japanese companies are not concerned about contracts and legal rights. That is an enormous cultural misunderstanding that can lead to major business mistakes. Japanese businesses are very legalistic and concerned with preserving their rights - though they are not litigious, in part because the Japanese court system is slow, expensive and cumbersome.

In this case “Kelly’s Assignment in Japan”, we have an example of expatriation poorly managed and unprepared. Different cultures, customs seem very important between Japanese and Westerners. Added to this barrier, we also not that there

From the beginning, there was no preparation from Kelly’s company to assist her with the culture and customs of Japan. They failed to provide her with information on proper ways to communicate with her Western counterparts. Additionally, Kelly experienced a language barrier and only had limited Japanese which she self-taught on the flight to Tokyo. Without formal knowledge of Western ways Kelly clashed with Japanese culture when she placed the CEO’s business card in her pocket without looking at it. Had Kelly been informed she would have known to review the business