Doing Business in Japan 1. Concept of “nemawashi”. In order to do successful business in Japan‚ it is very important to understand the heart of the Japanese decision-making process‚ known as “nemawashi”. Nemawashi was originally a gardening term‚ which roughly translates as “to dig around the root of a tree a year or two before transplanting it”. In the terms of business‚ “nemawashi” is the organized and efficient consensus building procedure by which the approval of a proposed idea or project
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Japanese people saw themselves. Many did not believe a nation-state could be consolidated under the Tokugawa regime‚ and should therefore reform the government and the nation according to Western ideology. This is perhaps best exemplified in the Meiji Restoration‚ which began as a way to not only reform the old Tokugawa way of life‚ but to also transform Japan into a nation that could stand on equal grounds with the West. Thus‚ following in their footsteps‚ Japan began its efforts in creating a national
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to share decision-making decisions to the local executives. This report also analyse the cultural differences that could raise issues within the business‚ and give recommendations to avoid it: * Negotiation process takes a longer time in Japan‚ as decisions must be confirmed by superiors. To deal with this issue‚
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Throughout the 20th century‚ and often against serious odds‚ Russians and Americans have been falling in love and marrying. Visson‚ an interpreter and writer‚ herself married to a Russian‚ has interviewed some 100 of these cross-cultural couples and researched the lives of couples in the earlier part of this century in an effort to understand the strange mutual attraction between people whose countries were usually antagonists. While rational explanations can only partly answer questions about romance (though
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Japan’s Lost Decade : An Introduction Japan’s economy has endured the first lost decade during the 1990s. Looking at the current situation‚ experts are pointing out that Japan is now experiencing their second lost decade due to similar characteristics of the first which is stagnant‚ non-improving condition of their economy. Did Japan learn anything from the previous lost decade‚ or did the steps taken to avoid another lost decade were too weak? What was the problem? We will try to look into the situation
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On March 11‚ 2011 Japan was hit with a 9.0 magnitude earthquake that destroyed Japan and surrounding states. The tsunami was formed by an earthquake underwater. Underwater earthquakes happen because of the collision of plates and it causes the fault line to slide‚ when a force pushes the water upwards that causes many tsunamis which gradually increases till they strike land or shallow water. This in this case happened to Japan. Before this major tsunami happened in Japan many people didn’t know
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of inventory‚ but increases the cost of replenishment and receiving. 2. The main risk for Seven-Eleven is the potentially high cost of transportation and receiving at stores. 3. 4. Seven-Eleven does not allow direct store delivery in Japan but has all products flow through its distribution center to reduce the number of vehicles required for daily delivery service to each store‚ even though the delivery frequency of each item was quite high. At the distribution center‚ delivery of like
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equal to the load of nearly 200 B-29 bombers. Everyone has heard of these famous bombings. Yet some people still try to justify them. Although the U.S. was only retaliating from the Pearl Harbor attacks‚ the use of an atomic weapon on Japan is not justifiable. Japan was
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P&G Japan: The SK-II Globalization Project (Harvard Business School case) Case Summary In “P&G Japan: The SK-II Globalization Project” case study‚ the author Christopher Bartlett presents the P&G’s plan of pushing SK-II as a global beauty product. In late 1999‚ Paolo de Cesare‚ President of Max Factor Japan‚ had given an idea to the Global Leader Team (GLT) of P&G’s Beauty Care Global Business Unit (GBU) that whether it was a good idea for pushing SK-II to become a global P&G brand. Since the
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true with countries whose religions originated in their country and had been around for many centuries. A great example of this is Shinto in Japan‚ which has been around for an extremely long time. Shinto formed the country of Japan‚ explaining how the country formed and how it came to be today. Shinto is an exceedingly significant thing to pay attention to when learning about any other events or concepts in Japan. Seeing as Shinto is the largest religion‚ there are multiple varieties of Shinto: Sect
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