By Billy Hammond (Copyright AELS) August 22, 2020 Showa Generation and Heatstroke Many people born in the Showa Era grew up in homes that had no air conditioning with electric fans at best. Even in Hawaii, most of the homes back then had no air conditioning. When I first came to Japan in the 1980s, the situation was pretty much the same. Some of the retail and service industries had air conditioning, but it was still a rarity in most homes. At the time, though, Japan’s population was still mainly made up of comparatively young people whose bodies were capable of a rather wider range of metabolic adaptations. In addition, the old-fashioned A/Cs were pretty much straightforward and mechanical, while lacking the current microcomputer abilities of the units we have today. Terms like “cooler-byo” (A/C illness) and comments like “I […]
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