Polish reporter Katarzyna Boni's book invites the reader to get to know Japan, unknown to Europeans. The reports included in the publication will not be about topics with which we associate this country: tourism, culture, science or economy. Instead, let's get to know Japan, which has been experiencing natural disasters century after century - earthquakes and tsunamis that take human lives and leave behind thousands of missing people. Japan, which faced an atomic explosion in the 20th century, and thus experienced nuclear power plant disasters, the scale of the consequences of which the authorities prefer to keep quiet.
How the Japanese overcome losses and traumas, how they live through disasters that destroy entire settlements or turn them into places unfit for life; how they feel about death and what they prefer to keep silent about rather than talk about - these are the topics the book is devoted to.
At a time when Ukraine is going through tragic pages of history and every day is experiencing more and more human losses, perhaps it will be important for us to learn about the experience of a nation that has its own, in some ways, similar experiences of trauma and overcoming them
