Cultural Assessment
Key Sectors
Business Etiquette
Market
Challenges and Opportunities
100

Most visited city in Japan

What is Tokyo?

100

Customary physical greeting in Japan

What is bowing?

100

japans most popular sport

What is Baseball?

200

Traditional Japanese garment and national dress of Japan

What is a kimono?

200

Japans biggest trading partner

China

200

How to accept business cards

What is with both hands and inspecting the card?
200

Western society focuses on individuality while Japan focuses on

What is conformity

200

Age demographic of Japan. Why??

What is aging population and low birthrate

300

Sign of respect when entering Japanese household, guesthouse, and temples

Taking off your shoes

300

Japans biggest export

What are cars?

300

Non verbal form of communication used everywhere but especially in Japan 

Body language

300

Japan's rank in the world economy

What is third?


300

Japan is a hard market to partner in for foreigners to get into because

What is that Japanese people like to build report and a relationship with those they do business with?

400

Biggest religion in Japan

What is Shinto

400

Japans Biggest Imports 

What is Mineral fuels including oil

(US$195.5 billion (24.9% of total imports))

400

Japans business hierarchy is dependent on

What is age and status?
400

Japans minimum wage

What is ¥1,163 in Tokyo, ¥1,162 in Kanagawa, and ¥1,114 in Osaka

400

Japans unemployment rate

What is 3%

500

Omotenashi

What is a Japanese expression that roughly describes concepts of hospitality. 

- Key elements are paying attention to the small details, anticipating the needs of others, and going above and beyond to meet them

500

Japans service sector takes up this much of their GDP

What is about 70%

500

group-oriented method is used to gain consensus

What is the Ringi System?

500

Japans yen is down due to

What is delayed prospect of rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve and the strength of the US economy?

- Wide gap in interest rates

- Bank of Japan has been raising the target interest rate on Japanese government bonds and announcing that it was sharply reducing the amount of bonds it buys as part of its efforts to control interest rates.

500

Sector that focuses on creating solutions for Japan’s vast urban areas, including transportation and housing.

What are smart cities or urban development?