社長’は英吾で何ですか？
社長’は英吾で何ですか？

In my dictionaries it is translated as many things including: managing director, president, manager, and director

These are all different job titles in English so which is the correct/closest translation?

Question

社長’は英吾で何ですか？
社長’は英吾で何ですか？

In my dictionaries it is translated as many things including: managing director, president, manager, and director

These are all different job titles in English so which is the correct/closest translation?

Answer

Hana is right. Many Japanese company titles don't have direct translations in English. In my company, we have a "President" and we call him 「社長」in Japanese. But we are a subsidiary, and our parent company's president is also called 「社長」in Japanese. I usually call our parent company's president "CEO" in English and the subsidiary company president, "president". For the higher up positions, I usually reference this site. http://www.studio-cube.com/bizinfo/title.html

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I heard that there is no equivalent word. I think CEO is the closest, but I'm not sure. 社長 is the top position of a company.

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