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In Japan it has been scorching hot day after day.

From daytime to night we have suffered from high temperature.
How did you feel when you came to Japan first?
Were you disgusted against Japan’s too hot summer? Japan’s summertime gets hotter and hotter in recent decades.
Or were you surprised at Japan’s rather chilly winter? It is true that there are countries that have colder winter than Japan around the world. But since Japanese people traditionally tend not to heat their rooms and houses up so much in winter, people tend to keep enduring coldness in their rooms with poor heating systems – they really do their “gaman(我慢,がまん)”, endurance, in winter.

Japan’s traditional houses are planned fot the foremost purpose of getting summertime’s hottness over.
Houses in Japan are for the most part made of wood and paper, except for tiles on their roofs.
Instead of walls, they have “shoji(障子,しょうじ)” and “fusuma(ふすま,襖)”, that can be removed away in summer and make wind go through fully.
Under their floors there are spaces that can be ways for airs going through and make rooms cooler.
This design, though, makes tempetrature in their rooms go under more in winter.
“Shoji” and “fusuma” can’t keep cold winds from intruding, because they have full of niches in themselves.
Under thier floors cold airs also makes their ways, and rooms get colder from underneath.

Japanese people have got accustomed in coldness in their traditional houses, that is, they do “gaman” in winter. Indeed, winter in Japan, except for northern tip of it, is not so severe and we can get over if we do “gaman”. Japanese people have their tradition to live in their houses designed to keep hotness in summertime mild and do their “gaman” in winter with poor heating systems.

But modern apartments and condos in urban areas, unlike traditonal houses, keep summer’s hot airs in their rooms and don’t let them go. When living in them, we can’t do our “gaman” any more, against out tradition…

(Oda Mitsuo, the president of Asian-Curd)

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