Available Services
Executive Interpretation & Business Consultation
Professional interpretors hired from an interpretation agency are of great assistance toward overcoming the language barrier, but often they only know about interpreting and nothing in particular about how business negotiations are conducted. It is not their role, for example to offer advice or subtly tip negotiations in your favor. Based on extensive experience conducting business in English and Japanese, KGS offers "executive interpretation" services and is committed to your success. Think of it as interpreting and business consultation rolled into one.
Project & Product Localization
In order to sucessfully complete a project in Japan or with Japan, everypart of the project life cycle itself must be localized: Initiation, Planning, Execution & Control, and Closure. A localization project is likely to fail when the project is managed as a sub-project under the Execution & Control phase of the company's global project or market expansion project. If you are serious about building a global business, you must succeed in doing business in Japan -and that success lies heavily on "Project Localization" and not on the localization tasks.
Gateway to Japan
Thirty years ago Americans were talking about Japan taking over the world. Nowadays the news is focused on the remarkable growth of countries such as India and China. In terms of selling, however, it's important to remember that Japanese consumers enjoy tremendous purchasing power. In fact, China's GDP per capita is less than one quarter of that of Japan. Japanese consumers are early adapters, always on the cutting edge of the latest trend, but it is also worth noting that Japanese deeply value the timelessness of quality goods and design.
KGS helps Japanese consumers find and get the goods they need from America to Japan. These services include B2B as well as transshipment and personal shopping services for personal import clients in Japan offered through KGS's consumer portal site.
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