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If I were to introduce myself, which would be better?

  1. はじめまして、あかみです。どうぞよろしく。

  2. はじめまして、あかみです。よろしくお願いします。

  3. How would you introduce yourself? Any better recommendations instead of 1 & 2 ?!

Thanks :D
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grammar usage greetings
Which is a Better Introduction?
Both are fine.

For some reason my first text book taught どうぞよろしく but when I went to Japan the
first thing I noticed was how rarely, if ever, I heard it. People always said
よろしくお願い（いた）します, so I started to do the same.

どうぞ means "please" and I would say it is used more often to make a request
into a polite invitation ("please sit down"/どうぞお掛けください).

Grammatically どうぞ still means _please_ when you say どうぞよろしく (you are
effectively dropping お願いします) but when making introductions it is something of
set phrase and as you know gets translated as "How do you do", "Pleased to
meet you".
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While I think the sentiment expressed in both answers that "both are fine" is
generally correct. I think you will hear the します and いたします forms much more
frequently, and I recommend using them except in contexts where you are sure
the other 「どうぞよろしく。」 construction is preferred.

I'm sure I'll get downvoted if my reasoning is wrong, but my sense is that
どうぞよろしく sounds quite informal in a first acquaintance context. Mainly, this is
because dropping ending verbs is a feature either of 文語 (which is definitely
not normal for meeting people for the first time) or casual speech.

To me どうぞよろしくお願いいたします fits bets when I'm meeting people who are above me or
joining a 学会 to which I haven't previously belonged. Used in other contexts
where I'm one of the more important people in the room, it might sound overly
polite (I think). I use this type when meeting my new coworkers or superiors.

[どうぞ]よろしくお願いします is an all-purpose workhorse greeting sentence. I use it when I
meet equals (by status) or when I am meeting a mixed group of people. So for
instance, I would use this to the [事務所]{じむしょ} staff. I also hear this when the
chair did his greeting to all of the incoming students.

どうぞよろしく。 is more informal (even with the どうぞ). I use then when at a party
doing greetings or when meeting friends of friends for fun.

So if I don't know the layout, I will probably opt for どうぞよろしくお願いします. If I
know where I am expected to fit, I will go with one of the others.
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