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Running a small company in Japan involves a hundred small things nobody translated for you. We write them down here — the paperwork, the money, the customs, and where AI actually helps. Much of it draws on information that, until now, existed only in Japanese.
The drawer of unopened Japanese mail
Almost every foreign business owner in Japan has one — a drawer, a tray, a corner of the desk where official-looking envelopes go to wait. It is not laziness. Here is what the drawer really is, and the thirty-second habit that empties it.
Read →The phone is the scariest object in your office
You can negotiate a contract by email and read a balance sheet, and still feel your stomach drop when the office phone rings in Japanese. Why phone Japanese is genuinely harder, how far you can design around it, and what to do about the calls that remain.
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