An Englishman in Nyu-gun

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20 July 2005


The main lake of Kenrokuen.
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In 2004, a few years after university, I decided to sign up for the JET programme, and I became an assistant English teacher in Fukui, a prefecture on the west coast of Japan. I taught there for two years before returning to London, where I now work in publishing.
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