summary: "On our return from our mo recent trip to visit my wife's family in Japan I posted on my pleroma account about my ambitious plans for 2020 in order to hopefully facilitate a move to rural Japan as early as Spring 2022.
This article is an attempt to flesh the out a little and to have somewhere that I can more easily refer to for updates, amendments etc."
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On our return from our mo recent trip to visit my wife's family in Japan I [poed](https://social.nipponalba.scot/notice/9qr4pWj9FQbYWBwIBk) on [my pleroma account](https://social.nipponalba.scot/jk) about my ambitious plans for 2020 in order to hopefully facilitate a move to rural Japan as early as Spring 2022.
On our return from our mo recent trip to visit my wife's family in Japan I [posted](https://social.nipponalba.scot/notice/9qr4pWj9FQbYWBwIBk) on [my pleroma account](https://social.nipponalba.scot/jk) about my ambitious plans for 2020 in order to hopefully facilitate a move to rural Japan as early as Spring 2022.
This article is an attempt to flesh the out a little and to have somewhere that I can more easily refer to for updates, amendments etc. So in no particular order:
#### Japane Government's Rural Initiative (not correct name but will update and write about in greater detail in the future)
#### Japanese Government's Rural Initiative (not correct name but will update and write about in greater detail in the future)
This is a scheme aimed at encouraging more families to move from the big Japanese cities to rural locations, with a focus on encouraging retraining, community involvement and company creation. Each town government has its own requirements and the can change on an annual basis.
<pclass="p-summary">As stated in my <ahref="/article/brewshido-a-beer-journal-intro">founding post</a> for this beer focussed blog, I have future plans to one day establish a modest craft brewery of my own in rural Japan. In order to help achieve those goals I tentatively applied for the <ahref="https://www.hw.ac.uk/study/online/postgraduate/brewing-distilling-distance-learning.htm"><i>MSc Brewing and Distilling By Distance Learning]</i></a> course run by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.</p>
As stated in my [founding post](/article/brewshido-a-beer-journal-intro) for this beer focussed blog, I have future plans to one day establish a modest craft brewery of my own in rural Japan. In order to help achieve those goals I tentatively applied for the *[MSc Brewing and Distilling By Distance Learning](https://www.hw.ac.uk/study/online/postgraduate/brewing-distilling-distance-learning.htm)* course run by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
Learning to brew beer through practice and experimentation is all well and good but I really wanted to understand the science behind the brewing in order to be be prepared to tackle future challenges and ideally preferred to do so in a structured manner, so this course seemed perfect for my needs.
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Fortunately, the soft requirement was indeed soft and without any request for references I have been offered an unconditional acceptance into the programme, which I have confirmed! WOOHOOO!!!!! If we're honest, this is probably more to do with harsh financial challenges facing our universities than it was to do with my passionate plea but either way, come September 2020 I shall commence studying in the programme which I think makes my dreams to open my own brewery far more attainable.
Whilst, this is an MSc course, every new student is enrolled in the postgraduate diploma course and opts in to the dissertation for MSc at a later date, should they wish to pursue this. I do not currently have plans to complete the MSc, nor even the PgDip but rather intend to exit after completing 6 coursse and attaining a postgraduate certificate (on completion of 4).
Whilst, this is an MSc course, every new student is enrolled in the postgraduate diploma course and opts in to the dissertation for MSc at a later date, should they wish to pursue this. I do not currently have plans to complete the MSc, nor even the PgDip but rather intend to exit after completing 6 courses and attaining a postgraduate certificate (on completion of 4).
My reasoning is that I'm attaining industry knowledge which will then be applied in practice to my own company, as such I am not so inspired to study the courses relating to academic writing and research. This could however change and the course offers me the flexibility to make tho choices further down the road.
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