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Chika Harada

Senior consultant

Languages

Japanese, English, Hungarian

Education

Kwansei Gakuin University
Chika Harada is one of our Japanese employees. She started her career at securities firm in Japan. In 1999, she moved to Hungary as a student and later, she started working for a Japanese EMS company. Chika joined our team in 2003.

She speaks Hungarian close to native level, Japanese, she is a kind of jolly joker in the company, but her abilities have been proven foremost by assisting greenfield investments by Japanese companies and outsourcing production to Hungarian companies.
She has spent the last 10 years in Hungary.
Chika Harada 's Posts
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That day, 5 years ago, was also a Friday…

12 August 2016
Chika Harada
It’s hard to believe that March 11, 2016 was the 5th anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake that hit Japan in 2011. I clearly remember that tragic day. I had to go to the animal hospital that day and had my newborn daughter with me in her pram when I saw the news on the television […]
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Hinamatsuri – the happiness of little girls

15 April 2016
Chika Harada
あかりをつけましょ　ぼんぼりに                                             おはなをあげましょ　もものはな ５にんばやしの　ふえだいこ きょうは　たのしいひなまつり Let’s light the oil lamps Let’s add the flowers, the peach blossoms Five court musicians, with drums and flutes Today is joyful Hinamatsuri! This song is heard everywhere on March 3, the Day of Girls and Dolls, called Hinamatsuri (ひなまつり) in Japanese. The festival is similar to Tanabata, celebrated on July […]
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Kintetsu reincarnated!

5 February 2016
Chika Harada
In February 2012 the Kintetsu Department Store, which had stood in front of the railroad station in the city of Hirakata, Osaka prefecture, closed down after 36 years of operation. In the less than ideal economy, department stores offering high quality and comparatively expensive products were unable to hold their own against the 100 yen […]
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The joys of a bonus

27 November 2015
Chika Harada
The Japanese business newspaper (Nikkei) recently published the results of a research project on summer bonuses paid to Japanese workers. The bonuses paid this year were generally 5.9 percent higher than those paid for the same time last year. A survey published in parallel sought to find out what people spent these bonuses on. Of […]
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The real reasons behind school violence

18 September 2015
Chika Harada
While recently reading a newspaper, one particular article caught my eye. It was about the steadily rising number of acts of violence against teachers in Hungary’s schools. The article included a table showing the rising number of acts of violence over the past 4 years. I went to school (both primary and secondary) in the […]
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Tanabata - Festival of the Loom

10 July 2015
Chika Harada
In Japan, July 7 was originally called the Day of the Loom or the Festival of the Loom. (In Japanese the loom is called 棚織 and pronounced “tanabata.”) In historic Japan a cleansing ritual was enacted in which maidens wove a kimono, placed it on a shelf, and greeted the gods, praying for a good […]
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