You’ve seen comedy sketches where two people are having a discussion, get into a disagreement and one person says “it’s not what you said it’s how you said it”. If how you say things can be detrimental between people who speak the same language, Mars and Venus jokes aside, imagine how much greater the problem is between people who speak different languages.

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Uniqlo, Japan’s largest clothing retailer has announced it will train all executives worldwide to communicate, write documents and conduct meetings in English by March 2012 (and not in Japanese as currently).

Tadashi Yanai, President and Chairman of Fast Retailing told the Mainichi newspaper.  “This move is necessary for a Japanese company to survive as a global corporation. 

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionnews/7857217/Uniqlo-drops-Japanese-and-makes-English-official-language.html

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