Curious stories and entertaining backgrounds about the Land of the Rising Sun. East Asian scholar and journalist Françoise Hauser has compiled hundreds of both useful and surprising facts and typical Japanese peculiarities in her pocket-sized travel guide: Where can cats be appointed as stationmasters? Where else in the world do mafia organizations have official branches that can even be found in the phone book? Where does the cherry blossom forecast get more airtime in the news than international events? And where do adult men receive pocket money? Questions that bring us closer to Japan and the Japanese, its land and people. For all travelers to Japan and fans: the smallest book about the country with the most gods.