Japanese sales roleplay practice
Run live voice sales roleplays in Japanese against an AI buyer who greets, objects, and negotiates like a native. Practice the call before the call, in the language you'll actually sell in.
In beta and free, with unlimited practice minutes. No card required.
Thirty seconds into a cold call, in Japanese.
A live, spoken call, in the language you'll actually sell in. The buyer greets you, pushes back, and changes their mind in real time, the same as a real prospect.
Two minutes from cold to call-ready.
Pick your buyer.
Choose what you're selling and a scenario, or let Lateral pull a real buyer straight from your calendar. You're set up in under two minutes.
Run the call.
Headphones on, go live. The buyer speaks, pushes back, and reacts in real time. No scripts, no multiple choice. You talk, they answer.
See the tape.
The second you hang up, Lateral grades the call on the five things that move a deal and shows the moments that earned it. Stack up reps and watch the line climb.
Every rep comes back graded.
The second you hang up, Lateral scores the call across the five things that move a deal, with the moments that earned it. Run enough reps and watch the line climb.
You earned the meeting. Now tighten the close.
A sharp open and real rapport carried the call. You lost a little ground on next steps; lock those in with 田中 and this becomes a booked follow-up.
- Opened with a pattern interrupt that earned the next thirty seconds.
- Mirrored 田中's pushback before answering it, textbook active listening.
- Name a concrete next step before 田中 hangs up.
- Quantify the cost of doing nothing earlier in discovery.
Score over time
8 gradedTracked over time
- Avg score
- 74Strongacross graded calls
- Calls graded
- 12this month
- Best streak
- 6dpracticed in a row
A buyer who knows your world.
Lateral reads your company to learn what you sell, then builds a buyer who is evaluating exactly that. Practice for your own product, or sell for any company you point it at.
- Your productThe buyer pitches against what you actually sell.
- Any companyDrop in a domain and sell for someone else.
- Your calendarReal meetings become roleplays automatically.
Sell in their language.
Your market isn't only English. Run any roleplay in 33 languages; the buyer greets, pushes back, and negotiates like a native.
Run the calls that actually pay.
From the first cold dial to the renewal that keeps the lights on. Pick a scenario or create your own, dial the buyer in, and go.
- Cold outbound discoveryHard
A first cold call to a prospect who didn't ask to be contacted. The rep needs to earn the right to a real conversation in the first 30 seconds.
- Inbound demoMedium
A prospect who requested a demo after researching the product. They're interested but need to see clear value and fit for their use case.
- Pricing & procurement negotiationHard
Late-stage deal. The economic buyer / procurement is pushing hard on price and contract terms before signing.
- Renewal & expansionMedium
An existing customer up for renewal. There's an opportunity to expand, but they have some unaddressed concerns from the past year.
- Champion buildingEasy
A mid-level contact who likes the product but needs help building the internal business case to sell it up to their leadership.
- Create your own
Describe any call and we'll build the buyer, the scene, and the opening line around it.
In short
- Lateral runs live, spoken sales roleplays in Japanese (日本語) against an AI buyer that greets, pushes back, and negotiates like a native.
- Practice cold calls, discovery, demos, and negotiations in Japanese, then get graded the second you hang up on the five things that move a deal.
- Built for reps selling into Japan, free while in beta, with unlimited practice.
Reading a script in Japanese and holding a live Japanese sales call are two different skills. The second one, hearing a real objection out loud and answering it without stalling, only comes from reps. Japan is one of the largest software markets in the world, and it runs on trust built over time. Selling in Japanese, and reading the indirect signals a buyer sends, is the difference between a polite meeting that goes nowhere and a relationship that compounds for years.
What sounds different on a Japanese sales call
Japanese sales calls are layered with keigo (honorific language) and indirectness. A buyer rarely says no outright; “it's a little difficult” (chotto muzukashii) usually means no. Patience, humility, and hearing what isn't said matter more than a hard close, and the wrong politeness level is itself a signal.
うーん、ちょっと社内で検討させていただきます。
Practice the Japanese version until it's as sharp as your first language
Pick what you're selling and the call you want to run, cold outbound, discovery, a demo, a pricing negotiation, a renewal. Set the language to Japanese, choose a buyer persona and difficulty, and go live. The buyer speaks Japanese, reacts in real time, and changes their mind the way a real prospect does.
The moment you hang up, Lateral grades the call on discovery, objection handling, value articulation, rapport, and next steps, with the exact moments that earned the score. Run it back until the Japanese version of the call is as sharp as your first-language one. The same works across 33 languages and every use case.
Frequently asked
Can I practice sales calls in Japanese with AI?
- Yes. Lateral runs the conversation in Japanese with a buyer who uses keigo, signals indirectly, and reacts the way a Japanese prospect would, so you can practice reading between the lines.
Does the buyer use keigo and indirect signals?
- Yes. The buyer speaks natural Japanese with appropriate honorifics and the indirectness that makes Japanese calls hard to read, exactly the skill worth rehearsing.
Do I need to set anything up?
- No. Sign in with your work email, set the language, and you're in a live roleplay in under two minutes. Lateral reads your product and (optionally) your calendar in the background.
How much does it cost?
- Lateral is free while we're in beta, with unlimited practice. No credit card.
Your next Japanese call is already on the calendar. Get your reps in first.
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