12 Things About Japan That Will Surprise Even People Who Have Visited

You've seen the photographs. You may have even been there. You came away with a feeling that you understood something. This video is about the layer underneath that feeling. Not the dramatic layer. Not the frightening one. The quiet one — the one that changes what you thought you were looking at when you were there. 12 things about Japan that tourism doesn't reach and guidebooks don't cover. The business card isn't contact information. The silence isn't empty. The apology isn't about guilt. The shrine that has existed for 1,300 years has never been more than 20 years old. And number one changes the way everything else sits.