We are joined by the Director of People Business Partnering in today's episode: Mitsuko Okamura. Mitsuko has a long career as a bilingual and bicultural professional working in sales, talent acquisition, and HR. She shares with us her experiences growing up in rural Japan, studying and living abroad in Canada, and working in Global Multinational companies.

This episode is packed full of interesting cross-cultural anecdotes from Mitsuko's point of view, and she is the first guest on our show who is Japanese, adding a different lens than usual to which we view cross-cultural awareness in Japan, typically from an expat's eyes. Mitsuko's sharing of her experiences will be valuable to anyone who is looking to better understand Japan and how to become a more global citizen, Japanese or not.