Enter a world of flying rabbits, blue traffic lights, spelling reforms, ancient alphabet songs, viking buffets, worthless theatre tickets, dragons emerging from the clouds, carefully-folded underpants, typhoons on pedestals, tetris blocks, men in the moon, huckster shrikes, and persimmon chips. Flying Rabbits and Blue Traffic Lights is a compendium of fascinating facts about the Japanese language, with plenty of weirdness and zero boredom.