The Value of Face-to-Face Meetings in Japanese Business

Amélie Geeraert
Kokoro Media
Published in
3 min readMar 15, 2024

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Japanese companies love meetings. Comments I frequently read on social media from foreign workers living in Japan are: “There are too many meetings,” “Why do the Japanese love meetings so much?” or “The meetings are too long, and in the end, nothing is decided.” My personal experience is similar to these impressions, although I would like to do further research and confirm them with statistics…

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Amélie Geeraert
Kokoro Media

Living in Japan since 2011. I love interviewing inspiring people.