Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Big gaijin in Japan, or not so much…

Here was my perspective from my first ever business meeting in Japan.  Thank goodness for the Interpreter and the patience and contributions of so many helpful and engaged team mates!

I think I learned more from them than they did me, but I hope they got a lot of value out of it.  The consecutive translation was very tough, but we made it, I only hope I didn’t wear out my translator for tomorrow’s class.  It was HARD!

And while at 6’2” I am still a big gaijin, I’m not as big as I would have been say, 20 years ago.  Yes, Asians are still mostly smaller, but I looked into the eyes of quite a few 6’+ Japanese.

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