Japanese staff
Sir, — How H. Tabak calculates the benefits of Japanese staff at 30 per cent is a mystery. The subjective comparison of company expansion and Japanese staff is of little interest, however. Of real concern is that H. Tabak talks of uninformed comments, and then evaluates the ability of New Zealanders to learn the Japanese
language and culture. It "is no longer acceptable for those people who do not speak Japanese to judge New Zealanders who do. As we now have a good number of New Zealanders who have studied Japanese intensively, and often have lived and studied in Japan, it is no longer acceptable to apply for work permits to bring Japanese here to work. On three trips to Japan, the English I heard from tourist-related employees was seldom other than marginally understandable. — Yours, etc., ALASTAIR McLAUCHLAN. April 18, 1984.
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