Harper Irwin

For the remainder of my internship experience I was fortunate enough to intern across multiple companies under the Nippon Kanzai Holdings group. Firstly, Bella and I interned for NS Corporation, going into this experience I had no idea what to expect at all, Bella and I were only told in-regards to this part of the internship experience was that we’d be within the art gallery, so this first day was more of a surprise. The NS Corporation office was within this huge building in Minato City and I mean this is genuinely zero exaggeration, this building was huge. The biggest building I’ve been in, let alone worked in. I was so scared that I was going to get lost finding stations, trainlines and the building but fortunately, I didn’t get lost at all (this time) and got there on time, to pass by time I went walking near by and I saw the Tokyo Tower. I forgot the Tokyo Tower was also within the Minato City area so this was so exciting and cool to see (see the picture collage above). Beyond this, during the day we met lots of different NS Corporation staff all of them being so kind-spoken and friendly despite the slight language barrier, they gave us a presentation so we could learn more about them as a company and they communicated our task for the day. For the remainder of the day, we had to analyse the English-version of their website and give feedback on what to improve to best visually-appeal to a western target audience. I completed this task by creating a report through MSWord which was structured by each section of their website with each section including: a hyperlink which highlighted the area to be corrected, reasoning as to why I thought it needed correcting and suggestion for improvement. I was super engaged and really enjoyed this task as my suggestions got to include both my experience in interacting with website as someone who natively speaks English but also as someone who enjoys website designing and knows design implementation strategies which specific purpose is to be eye-catching and target users to keep engaging with the website, so being able to implement both perspectives in a welcoming environment where my suggestions felt taken seriously and acknowledged is such a blessing as I know this isn’t always common within internship experiences. Completely off-topic but NS Corporation also kindly provided us lunch for the day which catered to both Bella and I’s allergies. The food was so delicious, it was tempura shrimp, pickles and other vegies with rice and as I’m writing this, I’m still craving that dish. Additionally, as seen above in the photos, we visited the Tokyo Tower after the working-day and we could see the building we had just worked in from the tower! This was honestly so fun, the excitement I had when recognising the NS building is something I’d never forget. Also off-topic but I stopped at Roppangi station on my way back to my accommodation and visited the Roppangi Hills Christmas light illumination they had which was so beautiful.