[chrisseaton]

> The reason being, in Japan most folks stay at the same company their entire life, there is no need to really network.

Don’t you still need to network within the company, network to find customers, network to find mentors, and so on?

[afiler]

I think that's called interacting with people over the normal course of business, and isn't something that's thought of as requiring specific targeted effort.

[ghaff]

Correctly or not, the term "networking" has come to carry a connotation of attending "networking events" and passing out business cards with great abandon. I meet and keep in touch with tons of people at conferences and otherwise in the course of my daily activities but I don't really think of that as Networking.