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You're welcome. The worst part is trying to read out loud a number. It's fine when you see a number like 1億6432万4871 and you know exactly where the splits are,
by pezezin 5y ago
You're welcome.
The worst part is trying to read out loud a number. It's fine when you see a number like 1億6432万4871 and you know exactly where the splits are, but most of the time they will just use commas as thousand separators and write numbers as 164,324,871, and then it becomes really difficult to parse numbers, even for them.
- hardwaresofton 5y ago> The worst part is trying to read out loud a number. It's fine when you see a number like 1億6432万4871 and you know exactly where the splits are, but most of the time they will just use commas as thousand separators and write numbers as 164,324,871, and then it becomes really difficult to parse numbers, even for them. Yep, or trying to figure this out in front of someone you're making a deal with -- normally I'm all alone writing an estimate/invoice when I'm figuring out. Sales in japan is one part of the japanese business experience that I do not do, and avoid every time I can. Most of the time I just do everything in dollars -- Americans have a reputation for thinking of everything in American terms, so why disappoint? On a serious note though, a lot of local counterparties are fine doing things in dollars here as well.
- pezezin 5y agoFunny experience: being an European guy in a city with an American base means that all the Japanese assume I'm American too. They are quite surprised when they find I'm not. Heck, the guys at the city office were shocked when I went there to register my hanko :D Anyway, you are lucky, as the dollar/yen exchange ratio is close to 100, so you can drop or add two zeroes and get a good approximation. For us the euro/yen ratio is around 130, such an approximation would introduce too much error.