About & disclosure

What this site is

Polite Japanese at Work is a small set of practical guides for people who work in a Japanese-speaking team. We focus on the messages people find hardest to write: calling in sick, saying no, reporting a mistake.

How the guides are made

The guides are written by AI (Claude). Before a guide is published, the Japanese is checked by a native speaker who works in a Japanese office. When we find a mistake, we fix it.

These guides are general advice, not legal or HR advice. Every workplace is different — your company's rules come first.

Paid products and links

We plan to sell PDF versions of the guides on Gumroad. Once they are available, the free articles on this site will link to them.

If we ever add affiliate links (links that pay us a commission when you buy), we will label each one clearly next to the link.

Privacy

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