Abroad in Japan: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Aug 2023 · Random House
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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
'Chris Broad explores Japan in all its quirky glory..Endlessly fascinating!'
Will Ferguson, author of Hokkaido Highway Blues
'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.'
Iain Maloney, author of The Only Gaijin in the Village
'Fascinating, fact-packed and very funny..An excellent and enjoyable read for the Japan-curious. I loved it and learned a lot.'
Sam Baldwin, author of For Fukui's Sake: Two years in rural Japan
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. 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?
Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that came with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most complex cultures.
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. 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.
Number one Sunday Times bestseller, August 2023. Cover may vary.
'Chris Broad explores Japan in all its quirky glory..Endlessly fascinating!'
Will Ferguson, author of Hokkaido Highway Blues
'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.'
Iain Maloney, author of The Only Gaijin in the Village
'Fascinating, fact-packed and very funny..An excellent and enjoyable read for the Japan-curious. I loved it and learned a lot.'
Sam Baldwin, author of For Fukui's Sake: Two years in rural Japan
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. 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?
Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that came with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most complex cultures.
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. 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.
Number one Sunday Times bestseller, August 2023. Cover may vary.
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105 reviews
Mochammad Santaka
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December 26, 2023
The book is written in typical Abroad in Japan style which are quite snarky and self depracating that people who follow his YouTube channel will recognize. With that, it creates a very fun and easy to read book that I easily devoured in a few sittings only. He made some interesting analysis about Japan based on his life there. He was very outwardly positive and critical, but he never felt condescending nor was he ever smug about his adopted home. Mr. Affable indeed. If you follow his YouTube channel, then the first half of the book is the juciest since Chris delves quite deeply of his mysterious past as a JET expatriate.
Alan Spong
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August 4, 2023
Bought this book on pre-order when it had the neon writing cover on Google Books. Now it's saying I have to buy it again and I can't even find the neon writing cover version on Google Books so that means I would have to purchase it again to get it even though I already spent £7.99 on the pre-order already
Mirna Viridiana Chaidez
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July 20, 2024
I really enjoyed this book. It gave me a way to escape reality on stressful days by allowing me to view the country in the author's eyes as a local. Not as a documentary. His sarcasm made me giggle on several ocassions, something much needed on those difficult times after a long day at work. I also loved that you could reference to his videos on Youtube and his documentaries. It is not a thriller, or a book intended to teach you life lessons. This book feels like a friend, just telling you about life abroad. That being said, I do recommend this book.
About the author
Chris Broad is a British filmmaker and founder of the Abroad in Japan Youtube channel, one of the largest foreign Youtube channels in Japan with over 2.5 million subscribers and 400 million views.
Over 10 years and 200 videos, Chris has visited all of Japan's 47 prefectures, focussing Abroad in Japan on travel, culture, food and covered contemporary issues through documentaries on the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. His experiences have made him a sought after voice on life inside Japan, featured on the BBC, Tedx, NHK and the Japan Times.
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