Japanese everyday life is full of details that easily confuse habitual logic: clean streets without trash bins, long lines for food, impeccable service, love for packaging, and polite refusals without a direct "no." The lecture will help to look at these cultural puzzles calmly, with humor and attention to the rules by which the country lives. Japan often surprises with everyday little things. There are almost no trash cans on the streets, yet everything is clean. A lost phone is likely to return to its owner, while an umbrella may disappear without a trace. People calmly line up in long queues for food, rarely invite acquaintances home, and know how to refuse so politely that the interlocutor does not immediately understand the meaning of the response. It is from such details that a conversation about a country where everyday rules work differently than expected by a person from Russia is formed. At the lecture, cultural anthropologist Maria Yakusheva will analyze why Japanese everyday life raises so many questions for foreigners. All entertainment in St. Petersburg is gathered on our website.