Koromogae or "Cool Biz"

"Koromogae" or the change of the season, doesn't officially begin in our company until June 1st. Actually they are calling it "Cool Biz" these days for the business community. Cool Biz is a thing the government developed to try to keep the country's energy use / carbon footprints down. The marketing efforts of the government tries to convince Japanese businesses that it is OK not to wear a necktie and full suit in 300 degrees Kelvin weather (you better google that for your own local temperature conversion).

Why they didn't figure this out 20 million years ago is a mystery to me... Japan seems to be the only Asian country left that wears full suits in this tropical swampweather that hits all of Asia for about four to five months. China, Korea, the other Asian countries have all gone to open neck, half-sleeved, no suit, no jacket business attire, but Japan sticks to the tried and true "full sweated jacket" style. I guess they figure they are "more business-like" or "cool" or something. Well, in this Land of the Rising Temperatures, with Tokyo Heat Island, it ain't so no mo'. To be cool, you gotta BE cool, yo!

For us at our company this means we must wear long-sleeved dress shirts, ties and jackets until that day. So we sweat in the office, and we sweat to and from work, and we sweat going outside in the sun heat and humidity (no sweaty crotch syndrome reference here, D).

Today is the first day this year that it is going up to about 30C/90F (probably higher as it is almost there already at 7:45am) with high humidity. We have another week before we can switch to no ties, and half-sleeve dress shirts.

Time to go and get ready for work.

I much prefer sitting here in a no-sleeve t-shirt and a home-made kilt...

Have a good day.

I love you!

Drippingly Yours,
Cam