In my Design section, I actually have 2 Japanese advisors, Morita-san & Wada-san. The salutation -san behind their names are meant to show some respect. Normally, for people of a lower rank..they will call the person with salutation -chan. That’s why they called Nohara Shinosuke as Sin-Chan, coz he is a little kid!! However, [...]

Just before 5.30pm, my Japanese bosses would call me for a meeting. This happens almost everyday. They call it the “Japanese speaking” meeting because it will be conducted in the language of the raw fish eating people. As someone who doesn’t understand Japanese, my main problem would not only be to understand what the [...]

Last whole week, I was working with our Japanese designer from the HQ. We’re working on a new product design for 29″ deflection yoke (DY) for CRT TV. His name is Akio Murata and he’s the only Sony DY designer left in Japan. To me, thats nothing shocking because I’m also the one and [...]