Hi there.I am Canadian, but I work in software sales in Japan, which means I talk to people on the phone, over email, and in person, in a number of situations, obviously all in keigo. Not sure if anyone would be interested in an AMA, but, AMA!

As far as I can tell, there are *very* few foreigners doing this kind of work in Japan who weren’t born and/or raised here, so I’m kind of a black sheep in a way. If anyone wants to know what it’s like, how I got here, or just ask questions about Japanese, but I am more than happy to answer.

Just a brief introduction:

1. I am Canadian
2. I graduated university in August of 2019, moved here in October 2019, got my first job in December 2019
3. Joined this foreign SaaS (software as a service) company as one of the initial 4 members in March.
4. I am the only foreigner in the sales team (unless you count a Chinese member who is a pre-sales engineer)
5. I started studying Japanese seriously in 2016, before that was really just learning to do a self-introduction