Interview at Yamaha Motors: How Can I Prepare to Work with a Japanese Boss?

Hi all,

Hope you all are in the best of your health. I'm having an interview at Yamaha Motors. If I get selected, my boss will be a Japanese person. The interviewer might ask me something related to Japanese. Can anyone please help me with how to deal with Japanese people or anything related to their language? Do let me know if any of you are aware of some websites related to it. I am left with only two days. Kindly respond asap.

Regards,
Jassi

Hello,

I can try helping you out. Try wearing blue on the first day as blue is a color of luck and prosperity in Japan. Japanese people give very high importance to a systematic way of doing things and following rules in a very strict context. They believe in good hospitality, adopt change and a high-speed life very fast, and are very quality-conscious. They give high importance to body language.

In Japan, you need to stress more on your listening skills to be known as an effective communicator and thus climb up the success ladder. Looking straight into the eyes while talking to a person is considered rude and treated as arrogance. They prefer a person who is willing to learn, and they follow a strict order of command in an organization. They are overtly ambitious.

I have only this much knowledge about the Japanese; hope others will contribute. Kindly do a Google search; you will get appropriate results on the same.

Thank you,
Octavious

Dear Jassi,
I can help you out with the way you should wish and greet others during the day:
Its very common to greet colleagues ,when you come to the office or meet them at stations etc. It's a good idea to learn some basic Japanese Greetings used at the work place(Ohaio Gosaimasu for good Morning, Konichhiwa for Good day and Konbanwa for Good evening). If you stay at an apartment block and see some of the apartment residents outside, wishing them is a good idea, even if you don't know them formally. If you leave the work place before the people sitting around, you need to say a particular sentence which means “ Sorry to leave before you (O saki ni shitsureishimasu !). Learning the common polite words for Thank you, sorry, excuse me, I need a favour etc. really helps in breaking the initial barriers with your colleagues etc.
Courtesy: Sunil Ranjhan
Regards,
Aditi