Bloombergs video makes Japanese business etiquette seem way more complicated than it really is

Common sense will actually keep you pretty safe when navigating the “etiquette minefield” of a job interview in Japan.

A long, long time ago, when young Californian Casey would mention that he someday hoped to live in Japan, he’d often have classmates and teachers tell him how incredibly difficult that would be due to the linguistic, financial, and cultural difficulties of living in the land of the rising sun. Not that they had ever lived there either, of course, but it was just obvious that Japan was cryptic and challenging enough to make things very unpleasant for anyone who didn’t grow up within its society.

But when the chance to move across the Pacific came, I took it, and discovered that in many ways, life in Japan isn’t nearly as hard as some people make it out to be. Which brings us to a business manners video from Bloomberg Asia, which describes job interviews in Japan as“an etiquette minefield for …