![]() ![]() ![]() With blockbuster moments such as a terrifying North Korean missile incident, a mortifying experience at a love hotel and a week spent with Japan's biggest movie star, Abroad in Japan is an extraordinary and informative journey through the Land of the Rising Sun. Spanning ten years and all forty-seven prefectures, Chris takes us from the lush rice fields of the countryside to the frenetic neon-lit streets of Tokyo. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most complex cultures. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?Ībroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that came with it. When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. Sam Baldwin, author of For Fukui's Sake: Two years in rural Japan ![]() 'Fascinating, fact-packed and very funny.An excellent and enjoyable read for the Japan-curious. ![]() Contact seller Seller Rating: Book First Edition Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good + US 20.00 Convert currency US 5.00 Shipping Within U.S.A. Iain Maloney, author of The Only Gaijin in the Village HOKKAIDO HIGHWAY BLUES Will Ferguson Published by Soho, New York, 1998 ISBN 10: 1569471339 ISBN 13: 9781569471333 Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A. 'Carves a unique path across Japan bringing him into contact with far too many cats, heartening renewal in Tohoku, and even pizza with Ken Watanabe.' Will Ferguson, author of Hokkaido Highway Blues 'Chris Broad explores Japan in all its quirky glory.Endlessly fascinating!' ![]()
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