Working Effectively with Japanese Counterparts: 1. Etiquette

1 hour interactive module on everything you wanted to know about bowing, shaking hands, exchanging business cards, socialising and meetings

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  • Assess your own preferences for
    1. Hierarchy
    2. Formality
    3. Emotional expressiveness
  • A 12 minute narrated slideshow video in English on Japanese etiquette - greetings, bowing, shaking hands, exchanging business cards, socialising, seating, gift giving and hosting Japanese visitors
  • Country backgrounds for each preference for Japan, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, UK, USA and Vietnam
  • Test on Japanese business etiquette
  • A course certificate certifying completion and passing of 1 hour of Continuing Professional Development is available


Your Instructor


Pernille Rudlin
Pernille Rudlin

Pernille Rudlin was brought up partly in Japan and partly in the UK. She is fluent in spoken and written Japanese, and lived in Japan for 9 years.

She has worked for two of Japan's largest multinationals in a variety of roles from sales to marketing to HR to corporate planning.

Pernille Rudlin holds a B.A.(Hons) from Oxford University in Modern History and Economics and an M.B.A. from INSEAD and she is the author of several books and articles on cross cultural communications and business.

Since starting Japan Intercultural Consulting’s operations in Europe in 2004, Pernille has conducted seminars for Japanese and European companies in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, UAE, the UK and the USA, on Japanese cultural topics, post merger integration and on working with different European cultures.

She is a non-executive director of Japan House London, a Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs initiative and a trustee of the Japan Society of the UK.


Course Curriculum


  Welcome
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  Self assessment 1
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  Screencast: Japanese etiquette
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