[Music] Japan is famous for very good social infrastructure,
like hospital systems, medical insurance systems, police, all those things.
If you call an ambulance, then most likely we can get, almost immediately, coming to
you to help you.
But that is supported by public money.
If you lose economical strength, that kind of service wouldn't come to us.
That's a real impact.
If you don't globalize, we will shrink further.
Using English as a common language is very key.
You can't just do without it.
The population of Japan is slightly decreasing, so for the Japanese companies to grow, we
have to compete in overseas market.
Our leader consumer market has been shrinking.
So to sustain their performance, the Japanese company is trying to seek new market all over the world
Out of this 7 to 8 billion human beings in this whole global community, Japanese speakers
are quite limited, and these days, it's not uncommon to use English in a Japanese headquarters.
For that reason, some of the Japanese company set English as a common language inside of the company.
For Japan's bright future, English is vital.
To understand your counterpart deeply, you have to interact directly and see how he or
she reacts to it as a human being and show how you react to their stories as a human being.
That's the key for any mankind to build a trust.
Using English is by far the most powerful tool to do that.