The “face” of Japan is well known to everyone: sushi and sashimi, geisha and samurai, sakura and Fuji, Toyota and Panasonic. Only experts know what is hidden on the “Other Side of Japan”. Political scandals and the world of Japanese toilets, the reasons for the popularity of anime and the secrets of the yakuza mafia, Japanese weddings and the hopes of Russian wives of Japanese husbands, the peculiarities of Japanese geography and Japanese “sickness” in football - became the main topics of the book by journalist and Japanese scholar Alexander Kulanov. The second edition of “Reverse” side of Japan" was replenished with "Aftershock" - forbidden revelations about Japanese management, unusual comparisons of Russians and Japanese and reflections on the causes of the accident at the Fukushima-1 nuclear plant - all that is not customary to talk about in Japan, but without which the idea of this country will be false.