The author Kamila Shamsie brings up an interesting point in her recent article for The Guardian. If an author writes a novel and if this novel is then translated into another language can the author still reasonably see the work as their own? Shamsie’s investigation arises from her own experience of a ‘misinterpretation’ of one […]
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Reuters News Tokyo published an interesting idea from the Japanese National Tourism Organisation (JNTO) this month: provide tourists with a ‘free’ trip to Japan, find out what difficulties they experience and then try to fix them.
The plan would roughly enable one hundred English, Chinese and Korean tourists, all non-speakers of Japanese, to visit the major […]
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With the 11.5% rise of the Yen against the Dollar in 2010, many Japanese businesses face the problem of how to communicate their ambitions within the culturally distinct market of the West.
Is the solution to make English the compulsory language of communication for all global businesses or to implement ‘Globish’- an interlanguage variant on English […]
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The 31 August edition of Info Age made note of an impending acquisition of a South African IT “cloud computing” company by a Japanese Telcom. It just so happens that the Telcom (NTT) is Asia’s largest. The South African company is Dimension Data and also provides Cisco products to its market. On the surface, the […]
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The New York Times covers a fascinating story on how Japanese companies are outsourcing calls centres abroad in order to save costs. However, the companies used have no other choice other than to hire Japanese staff in order to deal with the clients at the end of the phone. Why? Because they cannot do without […]
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