Learning to Bowby Bruce S. Feiler
β Scribed by Review by: D. O. M.
- Book ID
- 125294535
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Year
- 1992
- Weight
- 103 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-9884
- DOI
- 10.2307/489454
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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,
*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 bat