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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Japanese business culture- collectivisim

1.Appearances
Japanese people really care about their appearances when they are in the public.Clothes, hair style and shoes are all very important to Japanese people. Even in the Japanese companies, they always required workers to wear uniform while they are working.there are four reminders below:
  • showing respect to other people
  • take off your clothes and shoes when you enter Japanese people's house
  • only take off your clothes and coat after you do not get permission
  • whenever how hot is the weather, always wear formal dress and suit when you are attending meeting and events
2. Gifts
Giving gifts is a very important to Japanese people.  it could be happened when somebody is having a child, getting married, or birthday. When Japanese people are doing business, they always will bring a gift to their partner to show their welcome. Japanese cultural is a low context culture. giving and accepting gifts is related their face issue. Giving gift will help them built the relationship with partner. if you tend to give a gift to the Japanese people here are some tips for you.
  • don't use comb as a gift, because the pronunciation of comb in Japanese similar to death
  • don't make your gift's color to be black or white, because it is for death person
  • try to make your gift to be couple, Japanese people feel that will be match and perfect. 
3. Language
number four and number thirteen means bad luck. when you are at any happy and wedding event, trying to avoid any words related to death and bitter.when you are in the conversation with Japanese people, Japanese people do not talking about people's weakness like short, fat and old.

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