{"id":32049,"date":"2013-09-20T08:55:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T12:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=32049"},"modified":"2013-09-20T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T12:55:34","slug":"book-this-japanese-life-published-by-jet-alum-blogger-eryk-salvaggio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/20\/book-this-japanese-life-published-by-jet-alum-blogger-eryk-salvaggio\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: “This Japanese Life” published by JET alum blogger Eryk Salvaggio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"thisJapaneselife\"<\/a>Thanks to AJET <\/a>Chair Kay Makishi<\/strong> for the heads up on Fukuoka JET alum Eryk Salvaggio<\/strong><\/a> who writes the blog “This Japanese Life<\/strong><\/a>” and recently published a book by the same name<\/a>.\u00a0 You can read more about Eryk in this Japan Times<\/em> interview<\/a> with him from 2012.<\/p>\n

About the book:\u00a0 http:\/\/thisjapaneselife.org\/this-japanese-life-the-book\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Most books about Japan can tell you how to use chopsticks or say “konnichiwa.” Few tackle the real stress of life in a radically different culture.<\/p>\n

The author, a three-year resident and the writer and researcher behind one of the best Japan blogs, tackles the thousand tiny uncertainties of life abroad with honesty and wit.<\/p>\n

Perfect for anyone about to leave home for Japan or elsewhere, This Japanese Life will deepen any reader’s understanding of Japanese culture as it’s fused into a method of dealing with the hardships of working and living there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About Eryk:<\/p>\n

Eryk Salvaggio was an American newspaper editor in Bangor, Maine before teaching English in Japan with the JET Program. He lived in Fukuoka City from 2010-2013, writing a blog, This Japanese Life, about Japanese culture and the tiny anxieties of being an expatriate.<\/p>\n

The site was named one of the best Japan Blogs by Tofugu and was spotlighted by The Japan Times. Salvaggio has written for McSweeney’s, The Japan Times, Tofugu and Kulturaustausch.<\/p>\n

His work as a visual artist has been covered in The New York Times and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

He currently lives in London.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Thanks to AJET Chair Kay Makishi for the heads up on Fukuoka JET alum Eryk Salvaggio who writes the blog “This Japanese Life” and recently published a book by the same name.\u00a0 You can read more about Eryk in this Japan Times interview with him from 2012. About the book:\u00a0 http:\/\/thisjapaneselife.org\/this-japanese-life-the-book\/ Most books about Japan […]<\/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":[7,40,408,318,825,304,282,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books","category-jet-alum-author-beat","category-jets-in-the-news","category-lifeafterjet","category-notable-jet-alums","category-jet-roi","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