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Japanese has polite forms, but business emails are anything but shorter than in English: https://shiftasia.com/community/choose-the-right-email-greetings/ https

• foobiekr 1y ago
  Some of this has massively fallen away over the last thirty years. I spent a lot of time on Japanese linguistics, and the really formal tense usage was already falling away even in business context by the mid-1990s. I still find it fun to construct sentences that are practically gramnatical self-abasement but it's not common in actual spoken or written Japanese.