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  • [Music] Japan is famous for very good social infrastructure,

  • like hospital systems, medical insurance systems, police, all those things.

  • If you call an ambulance, then most likely we can get, almost immediately, coming to

  • you to help you.

  • But that is supported by public money.

  • If you lose economical strength, that kind of service wouldn't come to us.

  • That's a real impact.

  • If you don't globalize, we will shrink further.

  • Using English as a common language is very key.

  • You can't just do without it.

  • The population of Japan is slightly decreasing, so for the Japanese companies to grow, we

  • have to compete in overseas market.

  • Our leader consumer market has been shrinking.

  • So to sustain their performance, the Japanese company is trying to seek new market all over the world

  • Out of this 7 to 8 billion human beings in this whole global community, Japanese speakers

  • are quite limited, and these days, it's not uncommon to use English in a Japanese headquarters.

  • For that reason, some of the Japanese company set English as a common language inside of the company.

  • For Japan's bright future, English is vital.

  • To understand your counterpart deeply, you have to interact directly and see how he or

  • she reacts to it as a human being and show how you react to their stories as a human being.

  • That's the key for any mankind to build a trust.

  • Using English is by far the most powerful tool to do that.

[Music] Japan is famous for very good social infrastructure,

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