This came to mind today - @patio11 you can probably weigh in since you've come to Singapore....http://mutazarif.com/articles/the-difference-between-western-and-japanese-email/ …
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Replying to @cryptoecongames
That Japanese email at the start seems like a sentence short to me. Kids these days. (Joking but not joking.) If I were explaining this I'd also mention Schelling points (the "right" amount of politeness is the amount that you and counterparties would end on effortlessly).
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Replying to @patio11 @cryptoecongames
I would encourage people who are frustrated with counterparties' communication styles to a) understand that their counterparties may not share preferences and b) rather than asking for counterparties to be "blunt" ask them if they would like to accommodate local etiquette norms.
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Replying to @cryptoecongames
The blog says something to the effect of "You should tell Japanese people you're doing business with to be blunt" but I think one would have more success with "You should tell Japanese counterparties of Singaporean businesses to try Singaporean politeness norms as a courtesy."
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Which is a subtle distinction but the Japanese salaryman in me lives for subtle distinctions about business communications.
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I don't understand how I can simultaneously feel that I learnt something in the nature of a profound perspective shift - and yet still feel like I understand nothing! How do you live in the looking glass down the rabbit hole called Japan?
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The human condition is that nowhere makes sense but everywhere has an inner logic, and after I embraced that I stopped feeling like a stranger everywhere I went.
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