1. Enjoy Diversity!

2. About me, About Rakuten

3. Name Hashiyama Makito (橋山 牧人)
In Private Father of 2 daughters
Role In charge of APIs for Rakuten Ichiba services
TOEIC 650(in 2009) -> 840(in 2013)
Career Joined Rakuten in 2009 (5th year new grad)
About me

4. # of non-Japanese engineers
China
India
Korea
US
Vietnam
Canada
Australia
Thai
Norway
Indonesia
Sweden
Malaysia
UK
Singapore
Others
As of end of 07/2013

5. Team situation
• Colleagues
– 2 Chinese, 1 Vietnamese, 1 Korean
• In-house client
– French, Argentine, Taiwanese etc…
• Communication
– mail, chat, meeting, presentation in English

6. Episode of working with non-Japanese

7. Episode of working with non-Japanese
How to hold a drinking party?

8. How to manage tasks during long
vacation?
Episode of working with non-Japanese

9. How to bridge language gap?
○○さん
お疲れ様です。
以上、何卒宜しくお願いいたします。
In English?
or
Episode of working with non-Japanese

10. Advantage of diversity

11. Advantage of diversity
• Shortened working hours
– Work efficiently
– Consider various circumstances
• Speed up problem solving
– Communicate with engineers all over the world
• Discover something new everyday
– Different culture, different idea

12. Enjoy Diversity!