Overview: Today: identifying your chance to speak at a meeting. Timothy James Mahrt, from the United States, works at an IT firm in Tokyo. He helps develop software used for website translation. Though he has no trouble chatting in Japanese with colleagues over lunch, he sometimes finds it hard to follow meetings held in Japanese. For this reason, he has difficulty finding the right time to speak up. To improve, he takes on a roleplay challenge and gets advice from business Japanese experts.