Author&Teacher: Thomas Jerome Baker — “Rakuten” Means Business: Rakuten – A Japanese Company that Requires Its Japanese Employees to speak English – with each other!

“Rakuten” Means Business: Rakuten – A Japanese Company that Requires Its Japanese Employees to speak English – with each other!

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By Daisuke Wakabayashi Source: Wall Street Journal – Japan When Rakuten Inc. introduced an English-only policy for company communications in May 2010 as part of founder and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s push to globalize the Japanese Web commerce firm, critics questioned the wisdom in forcing staff to communicate with each other in their non-native tongue, English….

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- October 18, 2012 (11:52 pm)