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"One of the most important things every foreign traveler must know going to Japan is not to tip." says a correspondent for The Economist Magazine in a podcast titled Doing business in Tokyo. "Let me repeat that so you understand: do not tip. The reason why is that tipping in Japan is an insult."
"The presumption is that the person does the work for the agreed sum. ... If they needed a tip, they were a little bit slow and kind of needed a helping hand," explains the correspondent. "It's a great insult and would be used, actually, by the Japanese to show great dissatisfaction, and it would be deeply humiliating for the person to accept it."See the full content of this document
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Correspondents for The Economist share helpful guidelines and recommendations like this for more than two dozen cities as part of the podcast series called Doing Business In. Unlike most cultural...
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