Japanese firms get serious about globalization

Japanese firms get serious about globalization

TOKYO, Japan - An employee looks at a lunch-menu display with English signs at a staff canteen of Rakuten Inc. in Tokyo on July 8, 2010. Japan's largest online shopping mall operator is one of the Japanese firms which have decided to adopt English as their official in-house language in their resolve to become global.

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