After a decade in urban Japan, Scotland's Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village, immediately experiencing culture shock. The only foreigner, Maloney's attempts at amateur farming, gardening, and DIY perplex and bemuse his neighbors, and he will also contend with venomous snakes, terrifying centipedes, and bees the size of small birds. Told with self-deprecating humor, this memoir gives a fascinating insight into a side of Japan rarely seen, and affirms the positive benefits of immigration for the individual and the community.