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oulu BUSINESS SCHOOL Miina Ojanper EFFECTS OF USING english IN BUSINESS communication IN JAPANESE-BASED MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS Master s Thesis Department of International BUSINESS January 2014 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my thanks to my supervisors, Professor Ayumu Sugawara, for the support and insightful advice at Tohoku University, and Professor Tuija Mainela, for the guidance to complete the project at the University of oulu . My deepest gratitude is given to my teacher at Tohoku University who provided me the invaluable chance to contact Japanese companies. I would like to thank the participants of the interviews and the questionnaire, for taking precious time to share their experiences.

English has an undeniable role as the lingua franca of global business. Using English is no more a choice but inevitable for companies trying to compete in international markets. Yet, the effects of English in business communication have not been studied much until recent years.

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