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Oh, I didn't make things clear. The email was completely written in English. I think there has to be a little cross-cultural understanding both ways in these si
by laurieg 6y ago
Oh, I didn't make things clear. The email was completely written in English. I think there has to be a little cross-cultural understanding both ways in these situations.
- henearkr 6y agoAh, my bad, I was speaking about when conversing completely in Japanese. Maybe they react differently / have different expectations when they are writing / speaking English. From my experience, when speaking in Japanese, they are quite strict (if you are not a customer of course, in this case they would hide their feeling) about not adding "-san" to their given name, when they allow you to use the bare given name. In the story you relate, in this email in English, was it the given name that was used, or the family name?