{"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:  &#8220;This Japanese Life&#8221; published by JET alum blogger Eryk Salvaggio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/thisJapaneselife.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-32051\" alt=\"thisJapaneselife\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/thisJapaneselife.png\" width=\"160\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a>Thanks to <a title=\"WIT Life #250: Mochi, mochi and more mochi!\" href=\"http:\/\/ajet.net\">AJET <\/a>Chair <strong>Kay Makishi<\/strong> for the heads up on Fukuoka JET alum <a href=\"http:\/\/thisjapaneselife.org\/about\/\"><strong>Eryk Salvaggio<\/strong><\/a> who writes the blog &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thisjapaneselife.org\/\"><strong>This Japanese Life<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; and recently published a <a href=\"http:\/\/thisjapaneselife.org\/this-japanese-life-the-book\/\">book by the same name<\/a>.\u00a0 You can read more about Eryk in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/life\/2012\/05\/24\/digital\/this-japanese-life\/#.UjxC39emVpk\"><em>Japan Times<\/em> interview<\/a> with him from 2012.<\/p>\n<p>About the book:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thisjapaneselife.org\/this-japanese-life-the-book\/\">http:\/\/thisjapaneselife.org\/this-japanese-life-the-book\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most books about Japan can tell you how to use chopsticks or say &#8220;konnichiwa.&#8221; Few tackle the real stress of life in a radically different culture.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Perfect for anyone about to leave home for Japan or elsewhere, This Japanese Life will deepen any reader&#8217;s understanding of Japanese culture as it&#8217;s fused into a method of dealing with the hardships of working and living there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About Eryk:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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<p>The site was named one of the best Japan Blogs by Tofugu and was spotlighted by The Japan Times. Salvaggio has written for McSweeney&#8217;s, The Japan Times, Tofugu and Kulturaustausch.<\/p>\n<p>His work as a visual artist has been covered in The New York Times and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>He currently lives in London.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to AJET Chair Kay Makishi for the heads up on Fukuoka JET alum Eryk Salvaggio who writes the blog &#8220;This Japanese Life&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-8kV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32052,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32049\/revisions\/32052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}