A Day in the Life Working in Marketing as a Foreigner in Japan

so when you're working for a japanese  company or a company in japan   it's a little bit different than your own country   how many other videos have you seen out there  of foreigners working in a japanese office   none it's really rare so i'm a pr coordinator and i'm  promoting this hotel right now   and i just want to show you a day in the  life of an office worker let's take a look it takes me about 35 or 40 minutes  to get to work which isn't too bad   it's a lot worse for a lot of people in tokyo  a lot of people are doing two hours one way oh that's nothing you haven't seen  anything like you'll be on that train   and you can't even look at your phone or  move your arms because it's so crowded in the morning you have to say ohaiyogo  zaimasu to all of your colleagues if you see them for the first time even if it's  afternoon or evening it's always ohaiyogozaimasu   and then if you see them again in the hallway or  wherever you have to say Otsukaresama desu and if you don't say it like me  and maybe during the first week   then they'll tell you they will tell you this is what we do at work all day it's  important work very important work. Work! yeah and i got my co-workers here today my  co-worker is helping out hey guys I'm Sachin I'm from Sri Lanka. enjoy your life enjoy your  life that was a good one   we're gonna give you an academy award  for that you get the academy award this is not the first time that  I've brought a giant camera to work   no in fact i have to do a lot of filming and  taking pictures over here and it's kind of fun   oh my gosh she brought the gun  boom terminator is in the house   thank you at our company it doesn't matter  what your position is everyone has to sanitize   once a week and guess what today is wednesday so  it's my turn whoa this is heavy duty there you go good job undefeated champion this counts as work we're  also doing work right now so don't misunderstand   this is part of the job no it's lunchtime so  during lunch time you can do what you want   yeah i got you our company is a  little bit different than most   japanese companies in fact you can't have  piercings tattoos anything like that even   a beard is not normally allowed  at a traditional japanese company   but hey we're a little different here so you can  have all those things but that's pretty unusual i'm learning so much gosh using japanese and   also not just normal japanese you're using  japanese sonnkeigo and kenjogo you have to   talk to people differently when you're here in  japan it's not just this casual language like um so that's important to be aware there's a whole  nother category to learning japanese and all   this formal business language especially typing  i remember one time i kind of got in trouble here   because i wanted to tell them i could do something  anytime like it probably should have been but i said something like um and  i got scolded for that You can't say that that sounds rude and to me  i don't know as a foreigner i didn't know   so i'm learning a lot and i think that this  is a good place to make a lot of mistakes another task that i have every time i come  in is i have to post something to our social   media accounts and it has to be in japanese so  that's pretty difficult for me to try to use   marketing language in japanese but i always  have my colleagues look at it before i post it yeah it's it's a little different but i'm  learning a lot and i'm enjoying it so just  understand you know when you come to another  country and you work especially japan you're   going to be the idiot for a while and that's  just how it is but hopefully you'll learn from   your mistakes and not get too frustrated and just  become better so i would love to do lots of videos   about business culture in japan working in japan  working in an office in japan and if you'd like to   see more of that like this video and subscribe  and i could make a whole series out of this my cheeks are all red why they  all red we worked hard that's why   and it is not easy to find a marketing job in  japan basically the four main categories here are   english teaching and then maybe IT HR and perhaps  real estate is the next one it's very hard but not   impossible to find a marketing job in japan i was  a marketing major in undergrad so it was really   important to me to work in this field and i got  lucky lucky to find this place i'm only at this   location maybe two days a week but i like coming  out here it's a lot of fun and there's a   fun atmosphere so come and visit anytime you  want go into the lobby have a drink and make   sure you follow moxy follow moxy tokyo on  instagram i wonder how traffic's looking right   now is there going to be a lot of people you're  going to find out here we go now the commute home time to listen to some japanese audio lessons

Channel: Oriental Pearl

Views: 175,430

Keywords: working in japan, living in tokyo, japanese company, work in japan, speaking japanese, speak japanese, working in tokyo, learn japanese, japanese business, speaking perfect japanese

Id: m_wrYA7K4U8

Length: 9min 15sec (555 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 26 2022