Publish Date: May 16, 2012 Source: Reuters.com Author: Chris Michaud Workers whose jobs require them to interact with people in foreign countries say that English is the dominant language of business, according to a new poll. More than one quarter of employees in 26 countries around the world told an Ipsos […]
Publish Date: March 20, 2015 Source: Today Online English will be extremely important as a means for communications in business,” said Mr. Treenuch Phaichayonvichit of the Thailand Development Research Institute. Read the Entire Article on TodayOnline.com >
Publish Date: September 22, 2011 Source: Reuters.com Author: Mariko Katsumura It’s eight in the morning in a Tokyo office building, and a dozen middle-aged Japanese businessmen sit inside small booths, sweating as they try to talk English to the instructors in front of them. “I hope my wife will understand […]
Publish Date: October 17, 2013 Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Author: Anna Mukai Bridgestone Corp. (5108), the Tokyo-based tiremaker, found that presentations and discussions went much smoother after its top managers began conducting some meetings in English instead of Japanese beginning last year. The results have been so encouraging that the world’s biggest […]
Publish Date: May 2012 Source: Harvard Business Review Author: Tsedal Neeley Ready or not, English is now the global language of business. More and more multinational companies are mandating English as the common corporate language—Airbus, Daimler-Chrysler, Fast Retailing, Nokia, Renault, Samsung, SAP, Technicolor, and Microsoft in Beijing, to name a few—in an […]
Publish Date: October 23, 2013 Source: Asia News Network Author: Hau Boon Lai To prevail in the competition for global talent, Japanese companies must make themselves attractive to employees. Business leaders speaking at a two-day management forum in Tokyo, which ended on Tuesday, said companies in Japan can do this by […]
Publish Date: March 6, 2013 Source: The Santiago Times The Economic Ministry’s entrepreneurship agency, CORFO, presented its expanded English-learning program Tuesday, which provides scholarships for independent English courses. CORFO will offer 10,000 scholarships in 2013, up 2,500 from last year and 9,000 from the beginning of the program in 2008… […]
Publish Date: May 23, 2015 Source: The Japan Times E-commerce giant Rakuten has managed to do what the educational system apparently can’t — get Japanese people to speak English competently. After years of Rakuten building the English level of its employees, Chief Executive Officer Hiroshi Mikitani noted recently that the effort […]
Publish Date: July 2, 2015 Source: LinkedIn Author: Hiroshi Mikitani Learning English is a challenge for a Japanese company, but one I am committed to, not just for myself, but for a larger goal. Englishnization is, in my opinion, not just a strategy for Rakuten, but a global strategy for Japan. […]
Publish Date: July 23, 2015 Source: Asia Outlook Author: Emily Jarvis …English is the de facto language of trade, commerce and international politics for its association with cultural neutrality. Culturally and linguistically different countries, like China and India for example, naturally lean on English to communicate with each other. English is […]
