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The art of saying no without saying no
How does a non-Japanese business person know that a Jap…
First, I would like to introduce a YouTube clip of Pakkun, Patrick Harlan, a TV personality, when he gave an interview at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. As for the first point, Japanese is a high-context language and our sentences don’t have to be grammatically complete in order to make sense. This sample sentence may seem obvious and straightforward, but this kind of omission can be observed not only in the grammatical structure but in the communication itself.
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