Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
β Scribed by Feiler, Bruce
- Book ID
- 109760103
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 389 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780061863592
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about American culture, while they teach him everything from how to properly address an envelope to how to date a Japanese girl.
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### From Publishers Weekly Feiler's account offers an instructive, amusing inside look at a vaunted educational system. Invited by the Japanese Ministry of Education to teach English in a junior high school, Feiler arrived, shortly after graduation from Yale, in rural Sano, 50 miles north of Tokyo,