03 Japan

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03-01 Personal

It is hard to understand your own country or your own organization until you try to get your head around other nations, other cultures and other organizations. My most significant learning experience was the International Symposium on Small Business held in Tokyo, Japan in 1975. I chaired a session on the differences in small business…

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03-02 National

I never used to think of the Canada-Japan relationship as special, until I visited PEI in the 1990s and saw a plane load of Japanese arrive to visit the home of Anne of Green Gables. The photo shows some happy tourists. It was the translation of the book into Japanese that took the country by…

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