Japanese Business Language: An Essential Dictionary Compiled By The Mitsubishi Corporation

by Kaori O'Connor

Gives an inside view of Japanese bus. strategies, techniques, principles & practices through an analysis of over 500 key words & phrases that are essential for doing or understanding bus. in Japan today. Clarifies these & many other points of verbal & social misunderstanding that can confuse East-West bus. relations. Examines the concepts that underlie each significant word or phrase & the contexts in which they are spoken, using them to reveal the mechanisms of social control, the axes of organizational power, group loyalties & allegiances, channels of commun. & fine distinctions of status that must be borne in mind when interpreting Japanese bus. lang. & culture, or preparing presentations that can be easily understood in Japanese terms.

Hardcover

Published February 1, 1987