{"id":28000,"date":"2012-11-25T22:04:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T02:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=28000"},"modified":"2012-11-25T22:04:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T02:04:29","slug":"now-in-paperback-for-fukuis-sake-two-years-in-rural-japan-by-jet-alum-sam-baldwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/25\/now-in-paperback-for-fukuis-sake-two-years-in-rural-japan-by-jet-alum-sam-baldwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Now in Paperback: “For Fukui’s Sake: Two years in Rural Japan” by JET alum Sam Baldwin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\"\"<\/a>Following its successful release on Kindle, where\u00a0For Fukui’s Sake<\/em>\u00a0was the\u00a0#1 bestselling Japan Kindle book<\/strong>\u00a0on Amazon for much of the year,\u00a0For Fukui’s Sake<\/strong><\/a> by\u00a0Sam Baldwin<\/a> (Fukui<\/a>-ken, 2004-06)<\/strong><\/em><\/em>\u00a0is now available in paperback – just in time for Christmas! \u00a0(Read the\u00a0JQ<\/a><\/em> book review<\/a> on JETwit.)<\/p>\n

Get a copy for yourself, and your Japan or travel-loving friends and family.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shopping in the USA, Canada or Australia?<\/div>\n
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Buy it from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Shopping in Europe?<\/p>\n

Buy it from Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n

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A personal note from Sam Baldwin: \u00a0“When you’ve finished reading it, please do take five minutes to review it on Amazon to let others know what you thought of it. \u00a0Thanks.”<\/div>\n
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‘Witty and highly entertaining; a fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary Japanese people<\/em>‘ – Helen Arnold,\u00a01001 Escapes<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

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\u2018Jocular and candid; essential reading for backpackers and Japanophiles<\/em>\u2019 – Ginny Light,The Times<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

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‘Really evokes that excitement of \u2018discovering\u2019 Japan for the first time. I thoroughly enjoyed it<\/em>‘ – Jan Dodd,\u00a0Rough Guide To Japan<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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‘A fascinating journey and call to action<\/em>‘ – Mark Hodson, writer,\u00a0Sunday Times<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Far from the high-tech, high-rise of the super-cities, there lies another Japan.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\u00a0inaka<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 the Japanese countryside.<\/p>\n

Unhappily employed in the UK, Sam Baldwin decides to make a big change. Sayingsayonara<\/em>\u00a0to laboratory life, he takes a job as an English teacher on the JET Programme in a small, rural Japanese town that no one \u2013 the Japanese included \u2013 has ever heard of.Arriving in Fukui, where there\u2019s \u2018little reason to linger\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s\u00a0taiko<\/em>\u00a0class, skiing over paddies and learning how to sharpen\u00a0samurai<\/em>\u00a0swords, along the way Sam encounters farmers, fishermen and foreigners behaving badly.\u00a0Exploring Japan\u2019s culture and cuisine, as well as its wild places and wildlife,\u00a0For Fukui\u2019s Sake<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is an adventurous, humorous and sometimes poignant insight into the frustrations and fascinations that face an outsider living in small town, backcountry Japan.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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For more information about the book & author, visit\u00a0www.ForFukuisSake.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following its successful release on Kindle, where\u00a0For Fukui’s Sake\u00a0was the\u00a0#1 bestselling Japan Kindle book\u00a0on Amazon for much of the year,\u00a0For Fukui’s Sake by\u00a0Sam Baldwin (Fukui-ken, 2004-06)\u00a0is now available in paperback – just in time for Christmas! \u00a0(Read the\u00a0JQ book review on JETwit.) Get a copy for yourself, and your Japan or travel-loving friends and family. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,305,369,304,282,368,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cultural-outreach","category-japan-local","category-notable-jet-alums","category-jet-roi","category-traveltourism","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t