Using Petronio’s (2002) Communication Privacy Management (CPM) Theory and Carbaugh’s (2005) cultural discourse analysis, this inquiry points out four cultural premises that garner intercultural privacy management between foreign English language teachers (ELTs) and Japanese coworkers (JCWs) in Japan. The assay disclosed that ELTs: (a) expected not to be a “free space” for privacy inquisition by JCWs, and (b) expected voluntary reciprocity in (egalitarian) workplace relationships. JCWs viewed: (a) privacy inquisitions as acts of kindness/caring and (b) soliciting help from a supervisor as providing opportunities for better care. This inquiry calls for attention to intercultural privacy management and increases CPM’s cultural criteria.