For Fukui's Sake: Two years in rural Japan

For Fukui's Sake: Two years in rural Japan

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 â€“ 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 in a small, rural Japanese town that no one â€“ the Japanese included â€“ has ever heard of.

Arriving in Fukui, where thereâ€™s â€˜little reason to lingerâ€™ 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 drummerâ€™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 Japanâ€™s culture and cuisine, as well as its wild places and wildlife, For Fukuiâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Baka Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-09-09
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Baka Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-09-09
Format	Kindle eBook

For Fukui's Sake: Two years in rural Japan

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