Episode Details

On this episode of Japan Station, we talk about some of the more creative ways people in Japan are battling the intense summer heat.

👉Topics Discussed

• What is kokushōbi (酷暑日)
• How kokushōbi was decided via a survey
• About the Dohiemon Box/Human Refrigerator
• About Mandom's "Sweat Management" seminars
• About ice cream holders
• About the parasol curtain from Three Coins that makes you look like a Heian Period princess
• About Sofy Cool, the minty fresh cooling sanitary napkins that went viral
• The controversy behind men wearing shorts in the workplace in Japan
• The electric uchiwa fan machine
• And much more!

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