Navigating the Japanese company

NEW! 1 hour module on navigating the Japanese company as an employee or partner

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Whether you've just joined a Japanese company, are preparing for a recruitment interview with Japanese company or looking to partner with a Japanese company, this course will help you understand and navigate Japanese corporate culture from etiquette to decision making. It also takes a look at the challenges Japanese companies face and how they are changing.

12 five minute videos, with some thought provoking self-assessments you can do on your smartphone to understand your cultural communication profile, with a reflection and review session at the end.

This course is particularly relevant for people working in Japanese multinationals in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region as it contains references to the cultures of many of the countries in that region, in the context of Japanese corporate cultures.

As well as this English version, this course is available with French subtitles and will shortly be published with Arabic, German, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Spanish subtitles too.


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.


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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
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What if I am unhappy with the course?
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