Jetro recommends Japanese for local firms
Atsuo Kuroda, fifth left, president of the Japan External Trade Organization (Jetro) in Bangkok, presents a BJT Test Award and a certificate to the 30 highest-scoring Thai examination candidates.
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The Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro) has urged Thai enterprises to upgrade communication skills in business Japanese to better serve Japanese investors.
Atsuo Kuroda, president of Jetro Bangkok, said yesterday that better Japanese speakers would serve the growing number of Japanese investors parading to Thailand after trade relations open up further. The Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership (Jtep), which covers trade and investment as well as social cooperation, will spur trade and investment as well as knowledge transfers and human resource exchanges in the future. Kuroda recently presented awards and certificates to the 30 highest-scoring Thais in Jetro's Business Japanese Proficiency Test. The Jtep signing ceremony between the prime ministers of the two countries has been postponed from last Monday due to the political situation here. Jetro's recent report said Thailand was one of the Asean countries that Japanese investors target to expand their investment and consider as a good location for their manufacturing base. Jetro has been conducting the Business Japanese Proficiency Test around the world since 1996 to respond to Japanese firms operating overseas and foreign businessmen working in Japan. More Thais are interested in learning Japanese every year. More than 7,000 Japanese companies are doing business here. They employ more than one million staff and Japanese fluency is increasingly in demand, Kuroda said. The Nation
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