Abstract
Cultural distances of Individualism-Collectivism and High-Low context are supposed to play an important role for cross-cultural adaptation of international students in Japan. A series of survey have been conducted for the comparison between guest and host groups. In this survey Japanese students as the host group sample in comparison with international students are investigated on these dimensions. Japanese students evaluated 1)themselves and 2)other Japanese people concerning: A)Individualism-Collectivism and B) High-Low context. People with higher or similar collectivistic orientation showed better adaptation to human relations and Japanese norms. People with higher or similar high-context tendencies showed better adaptation to human relations and Japanese norms. People with higher high-context tendencies showed better adaptation to human relations. Japanese students with higher collectivistic and high-context tendencies supposedly have an advantage adapting to Japanese culture.
