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Daniel Mejía and Akiyoshi Ishigami at the Award Ceremony Employees of Japan Club have passed the PIC certification exam  administered by the Mexican real estate industry organization AMPI (Asociación Mexicana de Profesionales Inmobiliarios)  in Mexico City. Previously, our chairman, Kazumi Kawakami, had already obtained this certification. With these new achievements, we now have the second and third PIC-certified members within our company . The PIC certification is consider

Kazumi Kawakami President, Japan Club My name is Kazumi Kawakami, President of Japan Club. I was born in Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from Meiji University in 1976, I moved to Mexico to study cultural anthropology. In 1979, I began working at Nissei Sangyo Co., Ltd., where I worked for four years before temporarily returning to Japan. From 1983 to 1986, I worked at the Shibuya school of ECC. In 1987, I founded a trading company in Mexico and became

Now, today I would like to write about the country where I currently live: Mexico. While writing my university thesis about Latin culture and then actually moving to Mexico, I began to notice two cultural differences compared with Japan. Of course, these are simply tendencies; not everyone fits these descriptions. What I am sharing here is only my personal perspective. Also, this is not about deciding which culture is better. I hope this can simply broaden perspectives. Rathe

One of the important things to understand when living in Mexico is what is often called “amigo culture.” In Japan, rules are generally well defined, and social order is largely maintained through those rules. In Mexico, however, personal relationships often play a much bigger role. When people have strong personal connections, they may receive preferential treatment or higher priority, which can lead to certain advantages. This kind of culture is also commonly seen in the rea