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Is Japanese Really Needed for Doing Business in Japan? / Startups Often Deal with Big Corporations in English

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By Mike Kim / Special to The Japan News

10:52 JST, May 14, 2025

Late in 2023, a Japanese executive of a major Japanese corporation took me out to a sushi dinner at one of his favorite spots in Tokyo. During the dinner, I updated him on the progress of my Japanese studies, mentioning that I was at a basic conversational level. He responded, “You don’t need Japane...

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