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Managing In Japan: The Unwritten Playbook For Foreign Leader
Last updated 5/2026
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Language: English | Duration: 1h 37m | Size: 400 MB[/center]
Ringi, evaluations, team-building & the law - what no one tells foreign managers in Japanese companies
What you'll learn
Navigate the 稟議 (ringi) approval system and get requests approved faster using pre-alignment tactics
Write Japanese-style performance evaluations and defend your team's ratings in 評価会議
Manage older subordinates effectively using the five-tactic diplomacy framework
Understand Japanese labor law: 36協定 overtime limits, パワハラ防止法, and 有給 obligations
Navigate headcount, budget cycles, and cross-department politics like a Japanese insider
Build a promotion strategy and survive 年度末 (fiscal year-end) with your team intact
Requirements
Basic Japanese workplace cultural knowledge (nemawashi, 報連相, kuuki, evaluation basics) - covered in the companion course "Surviving and Thriving in a Japanese Company"
No formal management experience required - suitable for ICs preparing for promotion
Interest in working effectively within Japanese corporate systems
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence
You've been promoted. Now what?
Becoming a manager at a Japanese company is hard enough for Japanese professionals. For foreign leaders, it adds a second layer of invisible rules - unspoken expectations around decision-making, team hierarchy, evaluation culture, and labor law that no one explicitly teaches you.
This course is that missing briefing.
Built by an insider who has navigated Japan's corporate management culture firsthand, this is the playbook that tells you what the unwritten rules actually are - and exactly how to operate within them so your team, your peers, and your seniors trust you and follow your lead.
What the course covers
- The 稟議 (ringi) approval system - how proposals really move through Japanese organizations, why the stamp chain exists, and the pre-alignment tactics (根回し) that make approvals happen faster
- Performance evaluations (人事考課) - how to write Japanese-style evaluations, how to defend your ratings in 評価会議, and how forced-ranking dynamics work against you if you don't prepare
- Managing 年上の部下 (older subordinates) - the five-tactic diplomacy framework for maintaining authority without creating resentment, the single most common failure point for foreign managers
- Japanese labor law essentials - 36協定 overtime caps, パワハラ防止法 obligations, 有給 (paid leave) enforcement, and your legal exposure as a line manager
- Headcount, budgets & cross-department politics - how to navigate 年度 budget cycles, protect your team's headcount, and build the cross-functional alliances that make things actually happen
- Promotion strategy & 年度末 survival - how to position your team members for promotion, manage the fiscal year-end crunch, and build a reputation as a manager Japanese companies want to keep
Real-world episodes included
Every section is grounded in real management scenarios: the ringi that died in the stamp chain because one department wasn't consulted, the evaluation meeting where a manager's entire team was downgraded by the committee, the foreign manager who lost authority over an older team member in week two, and the one who quietly racked up labor law violations without realizing it.
Appendix downloadable resources included
- "Shadow Scorecard" (PDF) - invisible evaluation criteria self-assessment tool
- "Ringi Templates" (PDF) - document templates and speed-hack pre-alignment checklist
- "Manager Legal Cheatsheet" (PDF) - 36協定, パワハラ, 有給 one-page reference card
- "AI Prompts for Managers" (Markdown) - ready-to-use prompts for evaluation writing, nemawashi emails, and 1-on-1 prep
- "Complete Course PDF" - all slides and narration for offline reference
Who this is for
- Foreign professionals in management or leadership roles at Japanese companies (主任 through 課長 level)
- Expat managers transferred to Japan who are now managing Japanese teams
- Ambitious individual contributors preparing for promotion into management
Who this is NOT for
- Complete beginners to Japanese workplace culture - if you're not yet familiar with nemawashi, 報連相, and kuuki, start with our companion course "Surviving and Thriving in a Japanese Company" first
- Professionals trying to wholesale replace Japanese management norms with Western ones - this course teaches you how to operate effectively within the system
Instruction is in English. Key Japanese terms are shown with their kanji, readings, and full English explanations. No Japanese language proficiency required.
Who this course is for
Foreign professionals in management or leadership positions at Japanese companies (主任 through 課長 level)
Expat managers transferred to Japan managing Japanese teams
Ambitious ICs preparing for promotion into management at Japanese companies
Managing In Japan: The Unwritten Playbook For Foreign Leader
Last updated 5/2026
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Language: English | Duration: 1h 37m | Size: 400 MB[/center]
Ringi, evaluations, team-building & the law - what no one tells foreign managers in Japanese companies
What you'll learn
Navigate the 稟議 (ringi) approval system and get requests approved faster using pre-alignment tactics
Write Japanese-style performance evaluations and defend your team's ratings in 評価会議
Manage older subordinates effectively using the five-tactic diplomacy framework
Understand Japanese labor law: 36協定 overtime limits, パワハラ防止法, and 有給 obligations
Navigate headcount, budget cycles, and cross-department politics like a Japanese insider
Build a promotion strategy and survive 年度末 (fiscal year-end) with your team intact
Requirements
Basic Japanese workplace cultural knowledge (nemawashi, 報連相, kuuki, evaluation basics) - covered in the companion course "Surviving and Thriving in a Japanese Company"
No formal management experience required - suitable for ICs preparing for promotion
Interest in working effectively within Japanese corporate systems
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence
You've been promoted. Now what?
Becoming a manager at a Japanese company is hard enough for Japanese professionals. For foreign leaders, it adds a second layer of invisible rules - unspoken expectations around decision-making, team hierarchy, evaluation culture, and labor law that no one explicitly teaches you.
This course is that missing briefing.
Built by an insider who has navigated Japan's corporate management culture firsthand, this is the playbook that tells you what the unwritten rules actually are - and exactly how to operate within them so your team, your peers, and your seniors trust you and follow your lead.
What the course covers
- The 稟議 (ringi) approval system - how proposals really move through Japanese organizations, why the stamp chain exists, and the pre-alignment tactics (根回し) that make approvals happen faster
- Performance evaluations (人事考課) - how to write Japanese-style evaluations, how to defend your ratings in 評価会議, and how forced-ranking dynamics work against you if you don't prepare
- Managing 年上の部下 (older subordinates) - the five-tactic diplomacy framework for maintaining authority without creating resentment, the single most common failure point for foreign managers
- Japanese labor law essentials - 36協定 overtime caps, パワハラ防止法 obligations, 有給 (paid leave) enforcement, and your legal exposure as a line manager
- Headcount, budgets & cross-department politics - how to navigate 年度 budget cycles, protect your team's headcount, and build the cross-functional alliances that make things actually happen
- Promotion strategy & 年度末 survival - how to position your team members for promotion, manage the fiscal year-end crunch, and build a reputation as a manager Japanese companies want to keep
Real-world episodes included
Every section is grounded in real management scenarios: the ringi that died in the stamp chain because one department wasn't consulted, the evaluation meeting where a manager's entire team was downgraded by the committee, the foreign manager who lost authority over an older team member in week two, and the one who quietly racked up labor law violations without realizing it.
Appendix downloadable resources included
- "Shadow Scorecard" (PDF) - invisible evaluation criteria self-assessment tool
- "Ringi Templates" (PDF) - document templates and speed-hack pre-alignment checklist
- "Manager Legal Cheatsheet" (PDF) - 36協定, パワハラ, 有給 one-page reference card
- "AI Prompts for Managers" (Markdown) - ready-to-use prompts for evaluation writing, nemawashi emails, and 1-on-1 prep
- "Complete Course PDF" - all slides and narration for offline reference
Who this is for
- Foreign professionals in management or leadership roles at Japanese companies (主任 through 課長 level)
- Expat managers transferred to Japan who are now managing Japanese teams
- Ambitious individual contributors preparing for promotion into management
Who this is NOT for
- Complete beginners to Japanese workplace culture - if you're not yet familiar with nemawashi, 報連相, and kuuki, start with our companion course "Surviving and Thriving in a Japanese Company" first
- Professionals trying to wholesale replace Japanese management norms with Western ones - this course teaches you how to operate effectively within the system
Instruction is in English. Key Japanese terms are shown with their kanji, readings, and full English explanations. No Japanese language proficiency required.
Who this course is for
Foreign professionals in management or leadership positions at Japanese companies (主任 through 課長 level)
Expat managers transferred to Japan managing Japanese teams
Ambitious ICs preparing for promotion into management at Japanese companies
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