... Japan Foreign languages Management training Volume 21 July/August 1989 LANGUAGE LEARNING AND INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT IN JAPANESE CORPORATIONS by Nigel J. Holden In order to explain Japan's phenomenal success in international economic activity, it has become noticeably fashionable...

...Brian Twiss Japan is aiming at technological leadership, and has a clear and coherent policy for achieving it, which involves increasing investment in education, training and R&D. The scale of the training effort creates the organisational climate conducive to the acceptance of change. Examples...

..., to the sending of personnel to live in Japan to acclimatise themselves to Japanese culture. Perhaps the first hurdle that Western businessmen must overcome is to appreciate that the Japanese view the whole process of negotiation in a very different way from them. Negotiation for Westerners is generally perceived...