"The Secret of Laughter" Kohei Ohno / Toshihiko Amemiya Price: ¥1430 [What is "funny"? Dissecting familiar emotions with science!] Why do I laugh? What do people find funny? Twin brothers unravel the emotion of "laughter" with a mysterious masked hermit! The 6th installment in a picture book series that fosters an interest in science. <Synopsis> Taro and Jiro, twin brothers who love funny things. When they pick up and unfold a suspicious scroll, a "Laughing Hermit" wearing a mask appears! The hermit, who claims to know the "secret of laughter," teaches the two how to tell the difference between laughing faces, how the body works when laughing, and what makes people laugh. However, they realize that the Laughing Hermit doesn't laugh at all...?