Setting Up & Operating

by Helene Thian

More and more foreign-owned businesses are set up in Japan every year-and dozens fail because they are not set up properly. Now, an American lawyer working in Tokyo has written this new, compact... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804815445
• ISBN13: 9780804815444
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A useful guide from a historical viewpoint

Setting up and Operating a Business in Japan was first written in 1988, reviewing this book twenty years after it was published reveals a number of interesting points. Firstly, even though a large number of structural changes have taken place in Japan since 1988, the book can be used a reference, for example: chapters that cover "Working with the Japanese" Chapter 2, "Employees" Chapter 7, "Pros & Cons of Being a Foreign Business" Chapter 10 and "Business Advice" Chapter 11 provide useful and important insights that are still of benefit. Secondly, the book provides a guide post of how many things have changed over 20 years and so acts as a history book. Thirdly, it provides a sprinkling of Japanese business vocabularly for those also studying the language. A sixteen chapter book that covers 191 pages, Helen Thian is to be commended for her foresight and the ability to draw a wide cross section of interviewees. It would be interesting to do a follow up edition and discover how many of those who were interviewed for the book are still in Japan.