EDT

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America/New York

UTC-04:00

JST

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Asia/Tokyo

UTC+09:00

Shared work window

No same-day window to Use async hand-offs

No same-day overlap

EDT and JST have almost no normal workday overlap, so the pair is best handled with async planning, rotating meeting ownership, and explicit hand-off times. When teams do meet live, one side is usually outside standard office hours.