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Miscommunication in Japanese between Japanese and Local Employees in a Japanese‐affiliated Company in China Yayoi Umemura Chiba University ‐ , Yayoi‐cho, nage‐ku, Chiba‐shi, ‐8 , Japan Abstract According to the nd Survey of Overseas Business Activities by the Ministry of Economics, Trade, and ndustry MET in , almost , thousand people work in Japanese‐affiliated companies in Asia. t has been well documented that corporate globalization increases communication conflicts among individuals from different cultural backgrounds. A considerable amount of quantitative and qualitative studies have been conducted to identify the source of the misunderstandings. owever, fewer studies have analysed actual discussions at work. This study focuses on the interaction between native and non‐native speakers of Japanese, which was video‐recorded during fieldwork at an anonymous Japanese‐affiliated company in Suzhou, China. Using Japanese as a common language, the speakers communicate with each other about work. Based on a theoretical and methodological framework of conversation analysis this study attempts to explore what types of problems occur in their communication. This paper presents several conversations. n some cases the employees recognize the emergence of problems and solve them successfully, but in other cases they fail to do so. n the latter cases, the interlocutor only partially understands what the speaker intends to communicate, and they are both unaware of the problems occurring in the on‐going interaction. Solely acquiring advanced Japanese competence on the part of non‐native employees will not completely resolve this problem. Along with such competence, cooperative communication training is also necessary to improve understanding between workers. Keywords miscommunication, talk at work, conversation analysis, native and non‐native speaker, Japanese ‐affiliated company 1. Introduction After China joined the World Trade Organization WTO in , Japanese Foreign Direct nvestment FDA surged into China, and by , almost Japanese‐affiliated companies had begun to operate in China Mitsubishi Tokyo UFJ . Recently, they have expanded their business in Association of South‐East Asian Nations ASEAN countries because of high wages and economic stagnation in This nu ber contains the nu ber of the co panies which have already withdrawn.