10 September 2026 · 6 min read
Pairs of words that mean the same thing in English and are not interchangeable in Japanese — written versus spoken, humble versus neutral, person versus organisation. What each encodes, and why a…
3 September 2026 · 5 min read
Front kabu or rear kabu, traditional characters like 髙 and 﨑, kanji versus katakana, and four ways to romanise one surname. Why Japanese company names defeat string matching, and the one field…
27 August 2026 · 6 min read
Your emails are arriving in an inbox nobody owns. The route that works for first contact with a Japanese company is the one foreign firms have written off: telephone the main number…
27 August 2026 · 6 min read
The grammar was fine. That was never the problem. What gives a translated Japanese business email away — the written and spoken forms of "your company", the missing opening formula, the reversed…
27 August 2026 · 6 min read
Japan keeps unusually complete corporate records, arranged in a way that defeats searching. What the free registry gives you, what the certificate of registered matters costs, why revenue figures are missing, and…
27 August 2026 · 7 min read
AI will take you a long way into a Japan project and then stop at four specific boundaries: documents that are not on the web, actions that need a physical presence, language…