For Fukui's Sake: Two years in rural Japan - Softcover

Baldwin, Sam

 
9781467924146: For Fukui's Sake: Two years in rural Japan
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1467924148 ISBN 13: 9781467924146
Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

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‘A fascinating journey and call to action’ – Mark Hodson, writer, Sunday Times

‘Really evokes that excitement of ‘discovering’ Japan for the first time. I thoroughly enjoyed it’– Jan Dodd, Rough Guide To Japan

‘Witty and highly entertaining; a fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary Japanese people’ – Helen Arnold, 1001 Escapes

‘Jocular and candid; essential reading for backpackers and Japanophiles’ – Ginny Light, former online editor, The Times

Far from the high-tech, high-rise of the super-cities, there lies another Japan.

A Japan where snakes slither down school corridors, where bears prowl dark forests and where Westerners are still regarded as curious creatures. Welcome to the world of the inaka – the Japanese countryside.

Unhappily employed in the UK, Sam Baldwin decides to make a big change. Saying sayonara to laboratory life, he takes a job as an English teacher on the JET Programme in a small, rural Japanese town that no one – the Japanese included – has ever heard of.

Arriving in Fukui, where there’s ‘little reason to linger’ according to the guidebook, at first he wonders why he left England. But as he slowly settles in to his unfamiliar new home, Sam befriends a colourful cast of locals and begins to discover the secrets of this little known region.

Helped by headmasters, housewives and Himalayan mountain climbers, he immerses himself in a Japan still clutching its pastoral past and uncovers a landscape of lonely lakes, rice fields and lush mountain forests. Joining a master drummer’s taiko class, skiing over paddies and learning how to sharpen samurai swords, along the way Sam encounters farmers, fishermen and foreigners behaving badly.

Exploring Japan’s culture and cuisine, as well as its wild places and wildlife, For Fukui’s Sake is an adventurous, humorous and sometimes poignant insight into the frustrations and fascinations that face an outsider living in small town, backcountry Japan.

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Sam Baldwin spent two years working as an English teacher on the JET Programme in the small town of Ono, in Fukui prefecture, Japan. For Fukui’s Sake is a true account of his adventures. He has written about travel for The Guardian, The Times, The Independent and The Scotsman, and has contributed to numerous magazines and guide books. He now lives in Edinburgh and works as a writer and editor for an international online travel company. See more at www.ForFukuisSake.com

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Verlag
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1467924148
ISBN 13 
9781467924146
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
210
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