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2011年05月31日

June has come.
In Japan archipelago “Tsuyu(梅雨)” has begun as early as in May.
It was one of the earliest beginning of rainy season in meteorological record of Japan.
“Tsuyu” is Far East Asia’s rainy season in early summer.
It brings much rain from central China, Korean peninsula and Japan, except for northern Hokkaido.
In Japan Okinawa archipelago enters “Tsuyu” first, usually on May.
The meteorological front called “Tsuyu Front” goes up northward slowly, and in a usual season mainland Japan has much rain from June to July.
“Tsuyu” is the forerunner of summer season.
After rainy days cease, Japan has hot and humid summer days.
Last summer 2010 was one of the hottest ones in the record, too.
All around Japan many people were knocked down by the heat, fell down, and even died.
How will this year’s summer go?

This summer is different than usual.
It is expected that the outcome of nuclear power station disaster will influence every corner of daily summer life.
Not only stations struck by earthquake and tsunami, but also a station located in Hamaoka, Shizuoka prefecture, where there was no damage on 3/11, is now shut down by a decision of the government, that takes citizens’ steeply surging concern into consideration, because Hamaoka station is built along the coastline of Shizuoka and pundits warn that it is a remarkable probability that Tokai great earthquake will occur in the near future and coastline of Shizuoka will be hit by huge tsunami caused by the earthquake.
Because of shutdown of several nuclear power stations, a concern of power shortage lingers on, especially in this coming summer, in that heat wave pushes power demand up highly.

So companies are forced to think their devices to curb power consumptions.
People strive to save power at home in various ways.
Above all excessive use of air conditioners is criticized.
Instead people turn their interest again to an old-fashioned cooling product – electric fan.
Japan’s summertime is almost unbearably hot and humid, both night and day, especially in city areas.

“Gaman(我慢)”, getting patient, is a word Japanese people like to use.

I hope that this summer won’t be unbearbly hot one again.

When one gets “Gaman” in an unbearable heat and end up dying from it, it must be called another disaster.

(Oda Mituo, the president of Asia no Tofu)