![]() ![]() ![]() Pointing out that even he can't begin to understand the contradictions of Japan, Ferguson then delights in illustrating the myriad of Japanese idiosyncrasies, mercilessly poking fun at them in a fashion that will leave you in stitches. What follows is some genuine insights into the Japanese and their way of life as seen through the eyes of a gaijin who spent five years living in Japan teaching English before marrying a Japanese-national. In a country bigger than Germany, he decides that in order to travel with the Japanese, rather than among them, he will to do this by hitching 3,000 kms of Japan's backroads via its provincial capitals. ![]() Having drunken far too much Sapporo beer, Suntory whiskey and sake at the annual Faculty Cheery Blossom Viewing party, Ferguson is inspired by Japan's national obsession and announces that he will follow the Cherry Blossom Front all the way from Kyushu in the south of Japan up to Hokkaido in the north. Insightful observations delivering cultural and historical information in genuinely funny fashion, this is everything you could ever hope a travelogue to be, with the only caveat that a fair amount of the material is at the adult end of the spectrum. Hokkaido Highway Blues (also known as Hitching Rides with Buddha) is an outstanding hitchhiking travelogue by Will Ferguson detailing his journey the length of Japan, from Cape Sata to Cape Soya, in the early 1990's. ![]()
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