Communicating in Japan the Engineer Way with D.C. Palter [pt. 1]

DC Palter is the author of the mystery novel To Kill a Unicorn about Japanese culture in Silicon Valley, and the Tuttle guidebook on Kansai-ben, Colloquial Kansai Japanese. He's also editor of Japonica, the journal of Japanese culture. He previously lived in Kobe as an engineer at Kobe Steel before founding two tech startups and returns to Japan frequently to visit sake breweries and eat nikuman.

Topics covered in today's episode include:

-how communication still fails even when speaking the same language

-why Japanese is easier than Spanish (for Engineers, at least)

-how to effectively manage cross-cultural communication

-why there’s (still) no substitute for meeting with Japanese counterparts in-person

-what’s changed about life in Japan since the 80’s

DC Palter's Links:

To Kill a Unicorn: https://amzn.to/3sD2SGH
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dc-palter/
Japonica: https://medium.com/japonica-publication

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