Able Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon

Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into…

— Howard Rheingold

The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.

— Shuji Nakamura

“Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond “awesome” and “sucks”, which for a vast range of human endeavour, actually,…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Certainly expatriate Japanese businessmen are never actually mentally in the country to which they are posted. They sit late in the office, taking into…

— Rob Elliott

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded:…

— Anonymous

“late as the 1950s, a foreigner who was able to speak very good Japanese would frequently encounter people who were so conditioned to believe…

— Boyé Lafayette de Mente

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of…

— Masaaki Imai

Japanese is a very difficult language.

— David Anders

If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never…

— S. I. Hayakawa

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

— John Foster