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  Creating an Entirely New Brand for an Entirely New Company: Nissan-Mitsubishi Motors Joint-Venture, NMKV

  

  Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors have made history by establishing the first joint-investment joint-venture in the Japanese automotive industry with NMKV Co., Ltd., a company specializing in the planning and development of minicars. Thanks to the success of the Nissan DAYZ and the Mitsubishi eK Wagon, NMKV is now expected to create outside of its original scope. With the launch of this new company, we were chosen as partners to create the official website which opened in 2013.
  For this edition of funNOTE, we interviewed NMKV Corporate Planning Group’s Mr. Noriyuki Nakazawa (formerly with Mitsubishi Motors) and Mr. Yoshihiro Tanahama (formerly with Nissan). Mr. Nakazawa and Mr. Tanahama both played crucial roles in developing the business of this fascinating endeavor and were also the key driving force behind the creation of the NMKV website. Let us share with you what we learned about their work and the efforts that went into creating NMKV’s official website.

  

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  • Creating an Entirely New Brand for an Entirely New Company: Nissan-Mitsubishi Motors Joint-Venture, NMKV
  • Striving to Become the No.1 Business School in Asia: Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University (Summer Greeting 2013)
  • Conversation with a Professional Translator of Business Bookss (Winter Greeting 2012)
  • Abitus thinks ahead, Globalized Human Resources (Summer Greeting 2012)
  • The Publishing Platform Business Rolled Out by Six Apart, Ltd. (Winter Greeting 2011)
  • The Internal Communication Strategies of Multinational Japanese Companies (Summer Greeting 2011)
  • Foreign-language Website Production/Website Translation (Spring Greeting 2011)
  • Global/Multilingual Website Solutions (Winter Greeting 2010)
  • Market Development through Global Websites (Summer Greeting 2010)

• Message from Mariko Ohsato

  

  Struggling with the Cyrillic Alphabet: Learning Russian before Going to Sochi

  2014 Winter Greetings from Mariko Ohsato, President, Arc Communications

  

• Message from Mariko Ohsato

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  • Struggling with the Cyrillic Alphabet: Learning Russian before Going to the Sochi Olympics
  • Training Teaches the “How”; Education Teaches the “Why” (Summer Greeting 2013)
  • Arc Communications Year in Review: Top 5 “Globalization” News (Winter Greeting 2012)
  • Friendly Competition with New Comrades (Summer Greeting 2012)
  • Top 10 News Items for 2011 -- Official and Unofficial Versions (Winter Greeting 2011)
  • Communicate Locally, Market Globally (Summer Greeting 2011)
  • What Kind of A Country Is Kazakhstan? (Spring Greeting 2011)
  • Message from the President (Winter Greeting 2010)

• Get to Know Our Staff

  

  Draw it in 2 minutes!

  The ever popular "Draw it in 2 minutes" feature is back for this new issue of funNOTE. 2014 being the Year of the Horse in Chinese Zodiac, every employee had two minutes to draw up their take on the equine species.

  

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  • Draw it in 2 minutes!
  • “Me” Collection (Summer Greeting 2013)
  • Sum up 2012 in a single ideogram! (Winter Greeting 2012)
  • Draw it in 2 minutes! (Summer Greeting 2012)
  • Draw it in 2 minutes! (Winter Greeting 2011)
  • Fun with Japanese calligraphy! -- Four-character phrases -- (Summer Greeting 2011)
  • Draw It after 45 Seconds -- Let's All Do Some Doodling -- (Spring Greeting 2011)
  • The Country I want to Visit Next (Winter Greeting 2010)
  • Wishing Upon a Star! (Winter Greeting 2010)

• News

  

  The latest news on Arc Communications

  The latest news on Arc Communications

  1. 1. Our Achievements in Translation
  2. Renewal of UNIV. IN JAPAN, a Website Designed to Present English-based Programs Taught in Japanese Universities
  3. Translator of the Year
  

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  • Winter News 2013
  • Summer News 2013
  • Winter News 2012
  • Summer News 2012
  • Winter News 2011
  • Summer News 2011
  • Spring News 2011
  • Winter News 2010

• Column

  

  Tidbits on the Chinese Language No. 8: Phonetic Representation of Chinese Characters

  While kana phonograms serve as phonetic signs for Chinese characters in Japanese, how are they shown in Chinese, which exclusively uses ideograms? In this issue, we will present the two different means used to represent the pronunciation of Chinese.

  

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  • Tidbits on the Chinese Language No. 8: Phonetic Representation of Chinese Characters
  • Tidbits on the Chinese Language No. 7: Borrowed Words that Change in a Colloquial Context (Summer Greeting 2013)
  • Tidbits on the Chinese Language - No.6: Kanji Logograms Created in Japan (Winter Greeting 2012)
  • Tidbits on the Chinese Language - No.5: Kanji Logograms Created in Japan (Summer Greeting 2012)
  • Tidbits on the Chinese Language - No.4: The Difference between Japanese and Chinese Characters (Winter Greeting 2011)
  • Tidbits on the Chinese Language - No.3: The Difference between Written and Spoken Chinese (Summer Greeting 2011)
  • Tidbits on the Chinese Language - No.2: Two Styles of Chinese Characters (Spring Greeting 2011)
  • Tidbits on the Chinese Language - No.1: The Diversity of the Chinese Language (Winter Greeting 2010)

• Interview

  

  Staff interview: Daniel Fieschi

  After majoring in Japanese and English at the University of Provence’s Graduate School of Translation, Daniel crossed the seas from Corsica to Japan to put his linguistic skills to good use.
  Fluent in Japanese, he intends to help Arc Communications find a path onto the French market.
  

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  • Staff interview: Daniel Fieschi
  • Gary Auger (Winter Greeting 2012)
  • Shinichiro Shibata (Summer Greeting 2011)
  • Hiroaki Baba (Spring Greeting 2011)
  • Tomoyuki Unno (Winter Greeting 2010)

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