How do I give my business card to someone of another culture?

How do I give my business card to someone of another culture?

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When you give a business card to someone from Japan, or lets say they give it to you first, which is what's going to happen, they're going to present you with a business card and they're going to present the card with two hands and you're going to accept it with two hands and you're going to look at it and then you're going to place it in your pocket. I know what I do, I usually write something on the back of the card so I know who I got this card from - bad bad bad. You never write on it, you look like you're studying it and you put it in your top coat pocket, you never put it in your back pocket because you're going to be sitting on it and its very disrespectful, and you never write on it either. Same thing when you hand them your card in return. You hand it with two hands with the writing facing toward them. It's a very formalized exchange.