For Fukui's Sake is a 2011 travel book by Sam Baldwin that describes the experiences of living in Ono, Fukui prefecture, Japan, whilst working as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) on the JET Programme.
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The book also includes chapters on the Fuji Rock Festival, climbing Mount Fuji and Mount Haku, impressions of Tokyo and Hokkaido, as well as details of teaching at a Japanese Junior High School.
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Skyscanner gave a positive review of For Fukui's Sake, saying that Baldwin "expertly captures what it feels like to be a foreigner in a strange land".
Fukui | Fukui, Fukui | Tsuruga, Fukui | Kenichiro Fukui | sake | Katsuyama, Fukui | For Heaven's Sake (1958 song) | For Heaven's Sake | Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake) | Ōno, Fukui | Obama, Fukui | Natsuko's Sake | For Pete's Sake (film) | For Pete's Sake |
He is best known for Natsuko's Sake, which was adapted as a live-action television series.
George Sand wrote in 1872 that L'art pour l'art was an empty phrase, an idle sentence.
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A Latin version of this phrase, "Ars gratia artis", is used as a motto by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and appears in the circle around the roaring head of Leo the Lion in its motion picture logo.
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"L'art pour l'art" (translated as "art for art's sake") is credited to Théophile Gautier (1811–1872), who was the first to adopt the phrase as a slogan.
"For Heaven's Sake", a song by Elise Bretton, Sherman Edwards and Donald Meyer, recorded by Billie Holiday in 1958, as well as numerous other jazz musicians.
He was featured in Popi and For Pete's Sake and played the role of Pete in the 1984 film The Muppets Take Manhattan.