Reflecting back on my time on this study tour, I’ve gained a lot of experience during this month in multiple different areas; work experience, leadership experience, learning how to communicate with others and just life experience overall which has helped me grow as a person. I think I’ve gained a new insight into communication, of…

The next day we also had the opportunity to interview multiple staff from the Nippon Kanzai Co, with Nippon Kanzai Co being a sub-company within Nippon Kanzai Holdings. We had the chance to interview staff from the sales, property service management and engineering departments for one hour with each department, all the staff were so…

My final internship placement was with Nippon Kanzai Holdings, for my intern group (group A) despite all the documentation saying how we were only at NS Corporation for the second-part of the internship, we worked for many companies under the same parent umbrella for that time period; NS Corporation, Shiseido, Nippon Kanzai Holdings and we…

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…

On our third day at Tokyu Department Store we had to present our individual store tour plans during the morning, additionally during this day we had the opportunity to work with the Asia University student interns on a team project, during the afternoon we had to work as a group to come up with a…

The above include pictures of activities we did during the day! In the afternoon after the presentations we visited the tax-free offices at the Shibuya Scramble Square Mall and Hikarie. Picture 1: outside Shibuya Scramble Square Mall. Picture 2: View from Shibuya Scramble Square Mall. Picture 3: Hachiful Shibuya meets Akita store. The next presentation…

As apart of our study tour we have the fortunate opportunity to be assigned an internship with Tokyo City University partner companies. Getting an internship back at home can be very difficult, because of the high demand and limited technology companies within Perth so being able to gain experience not only in the corporate space…

On November 25th after our daily 2 hour Japanese lesson we had a Kimono experience. When we were all informed about how the study tour had planned to include a Kimono experience I was so excited. I’ve always had an admiration and respect for Japanese culture from a young age, so I’ve always wanted to…

Our second museum visit was to the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. Which I had been super excited to see. Before the museum visit I did research online through google reviews and social media and was immediately drawn to all the technology exhibitions and activities available. Especially the robots and the quantum computing…

Our first museum visit during the Cultural Understanding Week (the first week) was visiting the Gotoh Museum. This particular museum visit really stood out and stuck with me because in Tokyo especially in Shibuya (where I’m staying) it’s easy to get hyper-focused on how technologically-advanced Tokyo is with the big-screen marketing, huge shopping malls and…