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Etiquette Guide to Japan

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A long-running bestseller, Etiquette Guide to Japan has already helped generations of visiting business professionals and tourists negotiate the complexities of Japanese culture. Now completely revised and updated, this new edition reflects the most recent changes in Japanese etiquette and business practices. Drawing on their combined decades of experience working and living in Japan, authors Boye Lafayette De Mente and Geoff Botting provide an insider’s look at this delightful but sometimes puzzling nation. From knowing when to bow and when to shake hands to how to behave in public baths, at tea ceremonies, and on the subway, De Mente and Botting answer all the most common questions.

Additional information

Weight 227 g
Dimensions 127 × 191 mm
ISBN

9784805313619

Dimensions

127 x 191 mm

Book Type

Paperback / softback

Author

Boye Lafayette De Mente

Author Bio

Boye Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Japan, China, and Korea since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, student, trade journalist, editor, and author working out of Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He is a graduate of Jochi University in Tokyo and The American Institute for Foreign Trade (now Thunderbird: The School of Global Management, in Glendale, Arizona). His 70-plus books include Japan's Cultural Code Words, Business Guide to Japan, and Japan Unmasked.

Geoff Botting has lived in Japan for more than a quarter-century, long enough to witness Japan's economic bubble, its bursting and the changes that came in its wake. He is a freelance translator and print and broadcast journalist, specializing in business issues. He has a degree in economics from the University of Victoria in Canada and a diploma from Kai Japanese Language School in Tokyo.

Number of Pages

192

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