Oh dear. What about Japan? A lot of people go over to Japan so the language must be less of a barrier

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:26, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Japanesse work too hard
I'm not up to 12h/day, 6day/week working time.

Mark was working there for a while too, and it was very "funny". They are very misoginist (?) and don't accept women can work like man. He was there with a female collegue; Mark was doing one bit of the job and she was doing the other. When she'd send documents for the client to review, they'd come back with the comments to Mark, and tried for him to explain what it meant, ignoring the woman completely. Same for team buildings and going out.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:35, Reply)

The Japanese are fuckers to do business with - almost as bad as negotiating with the French.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:39, Reply)

that sounds pretty sucky!
I'd always wanted to visit Japan, but that was mainly because I heard that they have gin and tonic vending machines.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:40, Reply)

I guess it depends what you go there to do
I know a few people who've gone there teaching English and some who've gone there on fellowships to do research and none of them really had difficulties with language. Although as Aberaccion said, in business they are extremely sensitive to hierarchy and the highest position Japanese women usually attain is either an air hostess or an office lady (administrator).
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Wed 20 Oct 2010, 10:49, Reply)