Business Meetings
A common greeting gesture in Japanese culture, often compared to a handshake, which is performed by bending the head or upper body while facing someone.
What is Bow?
The hierarchical structure in business in Japan is based on this number, indicating the length of time a person has lived or existed--a higher number indicating a higher rank.
What is age?
When invited to a home or meeting, it is important to bring one of these: a thing given willingly to someone without payment.
What is a gift?
a worldview in which social behavior is guided largely by goals that are shared by a collective, such as a family; also the practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it.
What is Collectivism
This hot drink is often offered at business meetings and may be seen as disrespectful if the offer is turned down.
What is Tea?
When the time has come to make a decision, all parties must arrive at this term for a general, harmonic agreement--- the most important concept in all forms of decision-making in Japan.
What is Consensus?
The most important thing to remember when entering another persons home is to take off these.
What are shoes?
the quality of being thoughtful and considerate of others in such a way that the host can anticipate the needs of their guests or customers and adjust accordingly
What is Hospitality?
What is Business Card?
Within organizations, Japanese people often tend to exhibit this trait defined as giving or showing firm and constant support or allegiance to a person or institution
What is Loyalty?
A very popular tradition in Japan, this ceremony aims to bring inner peace and to practice silence, respect, mindfulness and symbolic purification.
What is a Tea Ceremony?
This term refers to avoiding humiliation or embarrassment; or pressure to conform and not ruin the reputation of yourself or group you are apart of
What is Saving Face?
Punctuality is highly valued in Japan which is why it is important to aim to arrive _____ the designated time
What is before?
Most Japanese businesses give guidelines of dark-colored conservative suits, ties, and subdued colors for this noun (Also found underneath a car)
What is Attire?
What is personal space?
the role or behavior considered to be appropriate to a particular gender as determined by prevailing cultural norms.
Gender Roles
Maintaining this (also a popular Lady Gaga song) is important in business meetings because expressing strong emotions, shock, or anger can be seen as lacking self-control and may harm business relationships
What is a poker face?
a group or system of interconnected people, business relationships, personal connections, and old friends.
What is Network?
This Japanese gathering is a common practice among coworkers after work
What is Nomikai? (aka drinking with coworkers after work)
When visting and making friends in Japan, it is important to ask about this conversation topic to get to know them
What is their hometown?