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Author : Kenji Kitao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Communication
ISBN : IND:30000057517520
Author : William B. Gudykunst
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791416038
This book is the first to provide a summary of the state of knowledge about communication in Japan and the United States. Included is an overview of the major approaches used in the study of communication in these two countries, an overview of the major cultural factors influencing communication, a description of the sociolinguistic differences between English and Japanese, an examination of Japanese-American communication as a function of the cultural values learned from the two cultures, and a summary of research comparing interpersonal research in Japan and the United States, as well as research on intercultural communication between Japanese and North Americans. The book also examines communication in organizational contexts in Japan and the United States and describes differences in mass communication between the two cultures.
Author : Haru Yamada,Orlando R. Kelm,David A. Victor
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781626164772
The key to professional success in Japan is understanding Japanese people. The authors provide a practical set of guidelines for understanding Japanese people and culture through David A. Victor's LESCANT approach of evaluating a culture's language, environment, social organization, context, authority, nonverbal communication, and time conception. -- "Choice"
Author : Ray T. Donahue
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0761812490
A textbook for students in Japanese, communication, or international studies, assuming no previous background in Japanese language or culture. Donahue (Japanese studies, Nagoya Gakuin U., Japan) first surveys the perceptual barriers to communicating between Japan and North America, then examines the Japanese communication style, differences in discourse, and images of the Japanese in the mass media. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Senko K. Maynard
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824863074
In an accessible and original study of the Japanese language in relation to Japanese society and culture, Senko Maynard characterizes the ways of communicating in Japanese and explores Japanese language-associated modes of thinking and feeling. Japanese Communication: Language and Thought in Context opens with a comparison of basic American and Japanese values via cultural icons--the cowboy and the samurai--before leading the reader to the key concept in her study: rationality. Writing for those who have a basic knowledge of Japanese language and culture, Maynard examines topics such as masculine and feminine speech, swearing, expressions of ridicule and conflict, adverbs of emotional attitude and the eloquence of silence. Maynard provides a refreshing and entertaining perspective for interpreting contemporary Japan, sometimes in contrast to the United States.
Author : Dean C. Barnlund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Americans
ISBN : UCSC:32106011913651
Author : Satoshi Toyosaki,Shinsuke Eguchi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315516929
Japan is heterogeneous and culturally diverse, both historically through ancient waves of immigration and in recent years due to its foreign relations and internationalization. However, Japan has socially, culturally, politically, and intellectually constructed a distinct and homogeneous identity. More recently, this identity construction has been rightfully questioned and challenged by Japan’s culturally diverse groups. This book explores the discursive systems of cultural identities that regenerate the illusion of Japan as a homogeneous nation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and methodological approaches investigate the ways in which Japan’s homogenizing discourses are challenged and modified by counter-homogeneous message systems. They examine the discursive push-and-pull between homogenizing and heterogenizing vectors, found in domestic and transnational contexts and mobilized by various identity politics, such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, foreign status, nationality, multiculturalism, and internationalization. After offering a careful and critical analysis, the book calls for a complicating of Japan’s homogenizing discourses in nuanced and contextual ways, with an explicit goal of working towards a culturally diverse Japan. Taking a critical intercultural communication perspective, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Japanese Culture and Japanese Society.
Author : William V. Ruch
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780899300283
William V. Ruch examines and compares corporate communications systems in the United States and Japan to discover what each can learn from the other. The author demonstrates that business organization in each country is highly reflective of the overall culture. In American corporations, communication is intended to transmit information rapidly; it is direct, efficient, and invites confrontation. Japanese corporate communciation also transmits information, but adds an element of emotional massage. In both countries business communcation is characterized by direction: American companies have strong downward systems; Japanese companies have strong upward systems. Most channels of communication used in American firms are also used in Japan, but some Japanese techniques could not and should not be used in the United States. Ruch argues that American and Japanese corporations cannot learn a great deal from one another. In fact, the only thing that Americans should learn is the value of a strong system of upward communication. The Japanese should learn that they need a faster system of decision making than the ringi system currently in use.
Author : William B. Gudykunst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Intercultural communication
ISBN : 1452243182
After laying out the basic theories of intercultural communication, this book explains the similarities and differences in patterns of communication in Japan and the United States. The authors then demonstrate how an understanding of these contrasting patterns can help Japanese and North Americans communicate more effectively.
Author : Tomoki Kunieda,Yamamura Koichi,Junichiro Miyabe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351797740
Despite its rapid economic development, Japan lacks a large public relations industry and its role is viewed very differently from its Western counterparts. PR functions are handled predominantly in-house and a degree in a PR field is not a hiring requirement for those agencies which do operate. Mainstream PR history focusses entirely on its organizational aspects, and there are no Japanese PR "gurus" defining the field.
Author : Haru Yamada
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190282554
Japan and the United States are in closer contact politically and economically than ever before, yet in many ways our nations are as far from mutual understanding as ever. Misconceptions and miscommunications between East and West continue to plague this important relationship, frustrating the best efforts of both cultures to work together. Stereotypes abound: Americans see Japanese as evasive and inscrutable, while Japanese see Americans as pushy and selfish. What causes these persistent misunderstandings, and what can be done to avoid them? Fluent in both languages and at home in both cultures, Haru Yamada brings an insiders perspective and a linguists training to this difficult question, illuminating the many reasons why Americans and Japanese misunderstand one another. Social organization, she explains, shapes the way we talk. Because American and Japanese cultures value different kinds of social relationships, they play different language games with different sets of rules. In America, for instance, Aesop's fable about the grasshopper and the ants ends with the ants scorning the foolhardy grasshopper. In Japan, however, the story has a very different ending: the ants invite the grasshopper in to share their winter meal, as they appreciate how his singing spurred them on during their summer labors. In the difference between these two endings, argues Yamada, lies an important lesson: Americans, because of their unique political history, value independence and individuality, while Japanese value mutual dependency and interconnectedness. The language of both cultures is designed to display and reinforce these values so that words, phrases and expressions in one language can have completely different connotations in another, leading to all manner of misunderstanding. Yamada provides numerous examples. In Japan, for instance, silence is valued and halting speech is considered more honest and thoughtful than fluid speech, while in America forthright, polished speech is valued. Likewise, the Japanese use word order to express emphasis, while Americans use vocal stress: a listener unaware of this difference may easily misunderstand the import of a sentence. In a lucid and insightful discussion, Yamada outlines the basic differences between Japanese and American English and analyzes a number of real-life business and social interactions in which these differences led to miscommunication. By understanding how and why each culture speaks in the way that it does, Yamada shows, we can learn to avoid frustrating and damaging failures of communication. Different Games, Different Rules is essential reading for anyone who travels to or communicates regularly with Japan, whether they are scientists, scholars, tourists, or business executives. But as Deborah Tannen notes in her Foreword to the book, even those who will never travel to Japan, do business with a Japanese company, or talk to a person from that part of the world, will find the insights of this book illuminating and helpful, because the greatest benefit that comes of understanding another culture is a better and deeper understanding of one's own.
Author : Dean C. Barnlund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040919149
This text explores general concepts in interpersonal communication and then applies and extends the concepts to Japanese communicative styles. General interpersonal concepts like social space, the verbal and physical aspects of intimacy and commitment are defined and then explored in a Japanese context. Close comparisons of Japanese and American communications illustrate the key similarities and differences between the two cultures. in departments of business studies, psychology and anthropology.
Author : Paul Wolfowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Japan
ISBN : MINN:31951D00810552Q
Author : Alan Goldman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791419460
This book uniquely prepares westerners for professional contacts with Japanese associates, markets, and audiences. Through stimulating analyses of Japanese society, corporate culture, and communication protocol, the reader is provided with a rich and textured blueprint of Japanese business behavior. Western professionals, managers, and diplomats are walked through a broad array of strategic communication venues and contact situations with the Japanese. Whether you are engaged in business introductions and meetings, writing and delivering speeches, establishing joint ventures or diplomatic relations, negotiating contracts, faxing memos, planning sales and advertising campaigns, or creating brochures for a Japanese market, Goldmans revelations of the Japanese mind and expectations will be invaluable. This book uniquely prepares westerners for professional contacts with Japanese associates, markets, and audiences. Through stimulating analyses of Japanese society, corporate culture, and communication protocol, the reader is provided with a rich and textured blueprint of Japanese business behavior. Western professionals, managers, and diplomats are walked through a broad array of strategic communication venues and contact situations with the Japanese. Whether you are engaged in business introductions and meetings, writing and delivering speeches, establishing joint ventures or diplomatic relations, negotiating contracts, faxing memos, planning sales and advertising campaigns, or creating brochures for a Japanese market, Goldmans revelations of the Japanese mind and expectations will be invaluable.
Author : Anne Cooper-Chen
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813827108
Mass Communication in Japan offers a rare inside look at mass media in an information society intimately related to and infinitely different from our own. Anne Cooper-Chen's overview of Japan's mass media reaches from its origins and functions to its current status and future prospects. She profiles segments of the industry: newspapers, news agencies, magazines and comics, broadcasting, advertising, and public relations. Cooper-Chen also examines such cross-media issues as law and regulations, journalism education and training, ethical crises, media images of women, minority/immigrant media, broadcast satellites and cultural imperialism.