Make The Most Of Your Time In Japan
Before You Go To Japan
Travel to Japan is expensive, but you will have to spend time there. Careful on-site preparation for your trip can easily save your company more than the transportation and lodgings costs of the trip. And the cost of travel to Japan can be dwarfed by the costs of mistakes while on the ground there.
Being supported by an experienced on-site team is good insurance on your travel investment. Being late or missing a meeting with a senior Japanese executive will result in lowered expectations and reduced respect for your company – in which case your investment in expensive travel will have worked against you.
While You're In Japan
From mundane details like transportation logistics to the more nuanced aspects of interacting with your Japan contacts, every aspect of time on the ground will benefit from careful planning and execution by an experienced and capable on-site team. Making arrangements for meetings in Tokyo can be complicated, making arrangement for meetings in other cities can be even more complex with the added requirements of inter-city transportation. The location of a meeting can even affect the choice of translators; for instance spoken Japanese is slightly different in Osaka than in Tokyo. Your Osaka contacts will understand Japanese as spoken in Tokyo but will probably appreciate the extra consideration you’ve shown by engaging a translator who speaks the Osaka dialect.
Trilliant International can provide on-site support from the introduction meeting through contract negotiations and beyond.