About the book: 2012 / Anyone who wants to learn more about Japan - this still mysterious and enigmatic country - will not be disappointed after reading the traveler's book , writer, and part-time architect-restorer Galina Shevtsova. The author, with humor and undisguised tenderness, talks about the amazing people she met in the land of lighthouses and temples and their no less amazing customs. Years go by, it’s the 21st century, but the Land of the Rising Sun never seems to change.