Japanese Adjustment Manual -- Fuji Initiative

Greetings,

You are reading this because, as you were most likely made aware by our friendly personnel directors this or the preceding month, you and many of your coworkers will be relocated to Japan next Tuesday. We will meet at approximately 9:51:29 AM in Chicago O'Hare International aeroport on Monday. We recommend you bring something as carry-on that will keep you occupied--the flight is usually quite long. Why we are relocting you is beside the point, but we will explain shortly. Failure to comply with our instructions will result in the loss of your job to a perhaps more competent person.

There are two practical options for relocation. You may continue to live officially in the United States, returning via company-sponsored air to the U.S. approximately "whenever-we-feel-like-it" (about once in two months), or you may bring all of your things and actually move to Japan. For efficiency reasons, it is in the company's best interest that you do the latter, yet while we push in this direction, some people may have trouble adjusting to Japanese life, and may not be able to cope with living in Japan full-time. Hopefully, this and other resources made available to you by your locale president directing personnel board will help you prepare for this, (and again hopefully), to prevent it.

It is your job to familiarize yourself with the myriad figments of Japanese culture presented on this website. Be quite certain that you pay the necessary attention, as your job security depends on your successful assimilation into Japanese society.

We believe that Japan offers a new frontier to market our products, along with providing greater faculty for manufacturing them in the first place. Japan has access to natural resources unavailable in alternate areas of the world. With quick, efficient, environmentally unclean = cheap industry, Japan will provide us with a new resurgance of successful manufacturing. Also, because of Japan's proximity to Southeast Asia, there is an immediate demand for our products there as well as in Japan itself--note that the Himalayas are a mere 6000km away. Our branch office, the Fuji Initiative, will commence operations on Monday with the first workforce flying Tuesday.

Wishing the Fuji Initiative the best of luck,

Ian Mallett -- Fuji Initiative Chairman: Board of Relocation Supervision Directors -- 2008