ABSTRACT
Within Japanese transnational banks, there was segregation between the Japanese sent from Japan and their local staff, and within both groups languages of different national work cultures were ‘used’. Despite the existence of various groups in terms of gender, ethnicity and class, relationships between groups are regarded as between national cultures: the British and the Japanese. Between them, there were antagonisms, jealousy and competition, and there were clashes, negotiations, and ignorance of each other, which led to the notion of ‘Otherness’ in their working lives.
