Business Travel in Japan on a Budget

CNN International ran a series "Business Traveler" which focused on international business hubs and offered tips on more bang for your buck. This clip focuses on Japan's Osaka and Tokyo. In this segment, Richard Quest starts in Osaka and busts the myth that sending staff to Japan will send prices through the roof. Steven Crane weighs in and sets the budget for a day (lodging included) at JPY 22,000. On this budget, taking the subway is the preferred mode of travel. In major Japanese cities like Osaka, subway stations offer directions at the ticket kiosk in English. Business lunch is with a group of Western expatriates who are the resident experts. It is explained that in Japan a business lunch is a way of negotiating the way that business will be conducted not the actual contract itself. How to gain respect and how to offend the Japanese is discussed as well. After lunch at JPY4000, a ramen shop is visited as a much cheaper alternative. After this, a media cafe is visited where a guest stays in a small room big enough for a couch, a small desk and a desktop computer which plays DVDs and has access to the Internet rented by the hour.



In this clip, how to open a business and how to cash in on the government incentives is discussed. Host, Richard Quest meets with the mayor of Osaka and then visits a Western expatriate businessman who explains his experience running a business in Japan. He discusses the importance of having Japanese staff as team members. Then the super jumbo jet is discussed.



CNN International ran a series "Business Traveller" which focused on international business hubs and offered tips on more bang for your buck. This clip focuses on Japan's Osaka and Tokyo. In this segment, Richard Quest travels from Osaka to Tokyo via a bullet train. Then the issue of baggage allowance and its inconsistencies are discussed. Then back in Tokyo, the largest fish market in the world, Tsukiji is discussed. Four grown men cut a tuna in half which sold for US$30,000. Then the host visits a sushi bar in Tokyo and receives a lesson on how to make sushi.


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