Most Indian clients in Japan are engineers and technology staff on company assignment, living around Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka, often with a family still in India or newly moved. Japan is three and a half hours ahead of Indian time, so a late evening call there is an ordinary evening here.
- Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka
- Three and a half hours ahead of India
- Assignment and relocation questions
- Hindi or English
Booking Around Japanese Working Hours
The difficulty in Japan is not the time zone but the working day, which routinely runs long. Late evening calls after nine or ten your time are entirely workable, since that is mid to late evening here.
Weekend appointments are the other common choice, and suit clients who want an unhurried hour rather than a call squeezed between the office and the last train.
- Three and a half hours ahead of Indian time, all year
- Late evening calls in Japan are evening appointments here
- Weekend slots for longer, unhurried consultations
- Birth details sent ahead by WhatsApp
Assignment Life and Its Questions
Postings to Japan are usually fixed-term, and almost every question traces back to that. Whether to extend, whether to bring the family, whether a spouse's career survives the move, and what happens to the plan when the assignment ends.
The language barrier and the social distance also weigh more heavily here than in the English-speaking countries, and clients say so.
- Whether to extend an assignment or return at its end
- Bringing a spouse and children, and schooling for them
- A spouse's career interrupted by the move
- Isolation and the strain of a long posting, and whether the period is passing
- Marriage arranged in India while posted abroad
When the Family Is Still in India
A posting often splits a household across two countries for a year or more, and the questions that follow usually involve more than one chart. Both can be prepared and read together in a single session.
- Two charts read together where a couple is living apart
- Timing for a spouse and children to join the posting
- A parent's health in India read alongside the client's own chart
Consult From Japan
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Consultations are held by call or WhatsApp at a time that suits your zone, in Hindi, English or Marwari.