Abroad in Japan: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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Abroad in Japan- A Japanese culture broadcast". Archived from the original on 17 December 2018 . Retrieved 17 December 2018. I’ve been following Chris’ journey across Japan for a few years now. Me and my husband, who’s been watching Chris since the very first video, have done multiple binge-watching sessions and we always wait for a new video to come out. So when the book got announced, it was a no brainer that I was going to get it.

My favourite thing about the channel is Chris's dry and sarcastic sense of humour, and that definitely crosses over into this book. I could almost hear his voice as I read along. This would certainly be a good audio book. A young man, fresh out of an English university follows a whim and takes a chance: to relocate for more than a year in a country that he has little knowledge of, no language, in a new job - no experience! A note about the writing style: Chris writes the way he talks. This makes sense since he's spent the last decade writing scripts, not books. When you are reading you'll hear the entire thing as though he's narrating it. I didn't mind this, although some areas of the books read like a video script, and could use some polish. Schuyler Millar, Schuyler (9 December 2022). "Ludwig brings Chessboxing to the world of content creation with the Mogul Chessboxing Championship". Colorado Springs, CO: KKTV . Retrieved 12 December 2022. Well hey, that was a breeze of a book, really got invested in it for the last few days! It really does help that I've been watching the channel since 2018; my friend Sam showed me Chris' very first video from his tiny Sakata apartment. The dry, snarky British humor is what has always set him apart and that's why I've kept watching Abroad in Japan for the last five years because you could tell he wasn't putting on a false, cheerful persona for the camera.Natsuki Aso ( 阿蘓 夏樹, Aso Natsuki ) – presenter, amateur musician and owner of a beauty salon in Yamagata, Japan Another person I find interesting to hear about was Chris' friend Ryotaro. Never heard how Chris med him aswell. What interesting way to meet a friend as well. But I couldn't anything else but laugh because how they almost has been acted like brothers. Kind of wholesome if you ask me. Broad spoke at a TEDx conference at Tohoku University where he presented about the power of YouTube and encouraged the audience to share their experiences with the world through the platform. [33]

Your audience is waiting". YouTube. 18 May 2017. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020 . Retrieved 17 December 2018. Saunokonoko, Mark. "Japan wakes up to TVs being taken over as North Korean missile whizzed overhead". Archived from the original on 17 December 2018 . Retrieved 17 December 2018. Tessa Randello (9 June 2018). "Japan's YouTubers go long with crowdfunded content". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on 7 June 2020 . Retrieved 22 February 2020.Because I’m not familiar with the YouTube stuff, I felt like we hit fast-forward around 2016; I think he assumes we will be familiar with his journey. He did a reasonable job at bringing those of us that weren’t along for the ride but it felt like we glossed over more and sped up from that point onward. The focus became more about the filmmaking, which didn’t hold quite the same allure for me as the earlier sections. Cat Nation: A Film About Japan's Crazy Cat Culture.". Archived from the original on 19 December 2018 . Retrieved 18 December 2018. Boyd, Oscar (18 December 2021). "Inside his new studio, YouTuber Chris Broad finally has space to create". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on 28 December 2021 . Retrieved 26 March 2022.

I was hoping to read more about how he met his fiancé, Sharla, but he didn't go into that. Apart from that, I thoroughly enjoyed. So yes, I recommend.

Natsuki

My husband introduced me to the Abroad in Japan YouTube channel a few years ago and we've enjoyed watching all the videos together ever since. When I saw the announcement for this book I was excited to get my hands on it and hear more about Chris' journey from being an English teacher to a highly successful creator. It’s exactly what I expected - full of fry humour mixed with cool facts about Japan. When I was reading it, it felt like Chris was reading it in my head (his audiobook is coming out in September). What Happened In Japan After The Tsunami?". YouTube. 1 February 2018. Archived from the original on 4 January 2019 . Retrieved 17 December 2018. acast (4 April 2018). "Abroad in Japan: Myths about Japan! | Abroad in Japan on acast". acast. Archived from the original on 30 March 2022 . Retrieved 21 December 2018.

Why I was attracted to the "not strange" Japanese identity as a foreign YouTuber]. Yahoo News Japan (in Japanese). 14 February 2021. Archived from the original on 14 February 2021 . Retrieved 22 February 2021. Atsuko Matsumoto (13 July 2019). "Videos 'like a party' look for the real Japan". The Japan News. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019 . Retrieved 13 September 2019. Series: Chris Broad's "Japan Not Listed in Guidebooks" (Chapter 0) What I can do to convey "the charm of Japan that Japanese people overlook" as a foreign YouTuber?] (in Japanese). Real Sound. 2 January 2021. Archived from the original on 11 January 2021 . Retrieved 10 January 2021. I Drove to Japan's Most Extreme North | Hokkaido Road Trip, archived from the original on 27 July 2021 , retrieved 27 July 2021In writing style, he's passionate yet not overconfident. He 'speaks' well because he's more considerate of his role - a narrator and witness. While he's no expert, he downplays what becomes apparent - his willingness to learn and embrace his new setting. The best part of the book is the first 60%, detailing his time teaching English in rural Japan and reaching the highs and lows of that experience. He had a ton of insightful societal revelations, talking about the various cultural pressures Japanese students face and how socializing in Japan is vastly different from the West. a b Fujita, Hana (23 November 2020). "British YouTuber Chris Broad spotlights resilient locals in Japan in wake of 2011 tsunami". Mainichi Shimbun. Sendai. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020 . Retrieved 3 December 2020.