Japanese meeting manners

Recently I attended a kick-off meeting with a customer in Kepong, and it was something I've never experienced before... the culture I mean. While we, the vendors, arrived at the meeting room first, their culture is not to sit down but to wait until everyone has arrived.


So we remained standing and wait to be introduced, one by one, to the customers. Being a kick-off meeting, the company just wanted to show everyone whose involved in this new project.

In the past when attending a meeting, I would just sit comfortably while waiting for everyone to arrive. Here, we had to stand while waiting. A big difference in culture.... interesting!!!