Re: Email etiquette for Japan?

["Mayur Polepalli" <dbmayur -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I would also recommend appending a San after the name of the person.
For example,

Hi Hart-San and Hudson-San,

Cheers,
Mayur


On 5/30/07, Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:
>
> Rob Hudson wondered: <<I will be contacting some folks in Japan and
> wondered how I should open my email since we have not yet become
> acquainted.>>
>
> I'm not an expert in this area (my main expertise is with China), but
> colleagues in Japan recommended the following formally (perhaps
> overly so) opening and close to an e-mail:
>
> [business letter opening: name and title of the person receiving the
> message]
>
> Itsumo taihen osewani natteorimasu.
>
> [body of the message]
>
> Dozo yoroshiku onegai itashimasu.
>
> [professional signature line, stripped of any clever quotes]
>
> I've used this successfully for several years. In addition, remember
> to be formally polite until you have clearly established an informal
> relationship, and be very careful with idiom and phrasal verbs until
> you've established your colleague's level of English skill. Some of
> my Japanese clients have superb English skills; others, not so much.
>
> If you review your e-mail before sending it (something too few people
> do), pay particular attention to looking for things you take for
> granted in English correspondence, and simplify phrases. Don't dumb
> it down by any means, but rather avoid some of the complexities we
> use all the time in English. For example, I love parentheses,
> semicolons, parenthetical comments, and em dashes, and overuse them
> shamelessly, so I always have to remind myself not to do so in
> corresponding with my ESL clients. <g>
>
>
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