So far, I have outlined 5 approaches that
are inevitable in successful business in Japan, which are basics in planning
and doing business.
What makes it difficult to go through them
is probably the fact that you cannot do them all by yourself or your staff due
to insufficient knowledge, know-how, network, resources and so forth,
especially if you are business owner/professional of small & mid-sized
business.
You can overcome it by networking with
experts around the globe and seeking help from them, in respective topics such
as market research, marketing, supply chain and so forth. After all, two heads
are better than one.
The more the budget you have the better,
but you can somehow do so with limited budget, too.
You might think you need to know Japanese
language to do so for Japan business. Actually no.
Japanese bi/multi-cultural with English
fluency is probably the first go-to-person while it is quite interesting to
know there are non-Japanese based in Japan, or non-Japanese working for
Japanese clients and the like who may well know about specifics of doing
business in Japan and cultural aspects more than most of the Japanese.
That is quite understandable because it is
when you have been exposed to multiple different environment that you can
compare and understand the uniqueness of your own country or Japan.
This is one of the topics I have covered in
my two eBooks I wrote, which was published by StartiaLab, a leading Japanese
eBook publisher in November, 2015.
English version: 7 Things to Know to be Successful in Business in
Japan
Japanese version: 世界を相手に勝つための教科書 – グローバル社会で事業を拡大する7つの方法と8つの事例
