"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
news:400428E1.BF858A8E@yahoo.co.jp...
> Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> The report is English is the language used at meetings when even one
foreign
> manager is there, which I do consider strange being a Japanese company in
> Japan. A lie?

Yes. See below.

> Your friend being there is proof they use English, and for the benefit of
> foreigners and English speakers.

Um, no.

You don't say that a meeting is held in English if interpreters are used.
You could equally well say that the meeting is held in Japanese, because
everything the English speakers say is interpreted into Japanese.

The meeting is held in English when everybody speaks in English. Is that
really so hard to understand?

> Did he not process English documents as well?

He did, but mostly Mazda's in-house translators took care of that.

> So why couldn't organizers do the same for the Aichi "World" Expo (also
note

I'll tell you what.

If Ford ever buys Aichi, I guarantee that they'll have an interpreter when a
Ford president visits.

Glad that's solved. Any more pressing issues?

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom