Written as an Intercultural Communication Textbook for Japanese University Students and their Teachers, this is a valuable resource for anyone who wants or needs to understand bicultural interaction between Japan and the West. An in-depth look at the way language and culture affect communication between Japanese and non-Japanese.
I am an American from Chicago, Illinois who has been living in Japan for over twenty years. I teach English at several Japanese universities, and have turned the hard lessons I have learned here into a guide for others to make those lessons a bit easier. Not to toot my own horn, but there is info here that just isn't available anywhere else. Ninety-nine percent of the book is English, but there are a few Japanese expressions written in Japanese (with English translations for each).
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Have a look at the Table of Contents and the first chapter (6MB PDF - may take a while).
Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the book, before or after buying.
Also, just out A Quick and Dirty Guide to the Japanese Meeting.