Abroad in Japan - Chris Broad Audiobook

Written by Chris Broad
Read by Chris Broad
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

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Abroad in Japan
By: Chris Broad
Narrated by: Chris Broad
Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
5.0 out of 5 stars5.0 (15 ratings)

Brought to you by Penguin.

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 was 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 comes with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world’s most mysterious and impenetrable cultures.

Spanning 10 years and 47 prefectures, Chris takes us from the chilling summit of Mount Fuji to the chaotic neon-lit streets of Tokyo. With blockbuster moments such as a terrifying North Korean missile incident, a Japanese national TV experience gone horribly wrong and a week spent with Japan’s biggest movie star, Ken Watanabe, Abroad in Japan is an extraordinary and informative journey through the Land of the Rising Sun.

©2023 Chris Broad (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Audiobook
Categories: Travel & Tourism
Biographies & Memoirs
Asia
Travel Writing & Commentary
Comedy & Humor
Critic reviews
From wide-eyed exchange teacher to seasoned youtuber, Chris Broad explores Japan in all its quirky glory, surviving earthquakes, North Korean missile alerts, cat cafe allergies and Love Hotel evictions. Endlessly fascinating! (Will Ferguson, author of Hokkaido Highway Blues)
Fascinating, fact-packed and very funny. Broad’s wry humour, in-depth knowledge and adept storytelling make him an engaging guide to the bewildering Japanese experience. Accurately captures the excitement and dream-like disorientation of a foreigner discovering Japan. 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)
Chris Broad’s wry, self-deprecating memoir 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. This is a thoroughly contemporary book, a memoir of life in Japan that couldn’t have been written at any other point in history. (Iain Maloney, author of The Only Gaijin in the Village)

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General:
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Apple audio with iTunes info
Codec ID : M4A (M4A /isom/iso2)
File size : 445 MiB
Duration : 8 h 8 min
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
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Album : Abroad in Japan
Album/Performer : [PZG]
Performer : Chris Broad
Composer : Chris Broad
Publisher : Penguin Audio
Genre : Audiobook
ContentType : Audiobook
Recorded date : 2023
Tagged date : 2023-10-07 23:34:46 UTC
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Copyright : ©2023 Chris Broad (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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Comment : 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 was 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 comes with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world’s most mysterious and impenetrable cultures. / / Spanning 10 years and 47 prefectures, Chris takes us from the chilling summit of Mount Fuji to the chaotic neon-lit streets of Tokyo. With blockbuster moments such as a terrifying North Korean missile incident, a Japanese national TV experience gone horribly wrong and a week spent with Japan’s biggest movie star, Ken Watanabe, Abroad in Japan is an extraordinary and informative journey through the Land of the Rising Sun.

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Menu #1:
00:00:00.000 : Intro - Opening Credits ☕
00:00:18.808 : Dedication
00:00:29.143 : Prologue: The Interview
00:07:03.676 : 1. The Sushi Revelation
00:25:16.503 : 2. The Japan Lottery
00:56:38.926 : 3. Sweat and Sand
01:16:35.432 : 4. Hot Springs and Tiny Cars
01:26:06.926 : 5. Mr Dick
01:44:01.690 : 6. Sake, onegaishimasu!
01:57:47.885 : 7. When Teaching Goes Wrong
02:17:45.089 : 8. Many Fucking Snow
02:34:55.838 : 9. The Impossible Language
02:49:04.744 : 10. Party Time
03:01:56.374 : 11. Land of the Rising Waistline
03:13:07.694 : 12. Hostess Clubs and the Art of Expensive Companionship
03:22:51.545 : 13. Get Out. Now.
03:56:07.680 : 14. Japan’s Most Eccentric Man
04:12:12.572 : 15. The Wise Men of Fuji
04:28:18.579 : 16. Doctor Who
04:37:52.959 : 17. The Fried-chicken-addicted Bear
05:03:41.951 : 18. The Worst Possible Start
05:13:03.840 : 19. A Letter from the Colonel
05:25:40.707 : 20. Saying Goodbye
05:42:48.505 : 21. Starting Over
05:59:14.230 : 22. Cat Nation
06:20:29.856 : 23. A Home at Last
06:32:07.421 : 24. Missiles Incoming
06:45:59.593 : 25. Ground Zero
07:12:03.449 : 26. Seeking Redemption in a Lost Year
07:27:42.783 : 27. Disappearing Kyoto
07:40:46.590 : 28. ‘This is My Dream’
07:50:39.901 : 29. Fear and Earthquakes
08:00:47.911 : Epilogue
08:05:45.911 : Acknowledgements
08:08:17.417 : Outro - Ending Credits ☕

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First published in Great Britain in 2023 by Bantam

Copyright © Chris Broad, 2023

The moral right of the author has been asserted

Cover illustration © Matt Saunders

Every effort has been made to obtain the necessary permissions with reference to copyright material, both illustrative and quoted. We apologize for any omissions in this respect and will be pleased to make the appropriate acknowledgements in any future edition.

ISBN: 978-1-529-90727-8

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