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Originally Posted by Kyuusai
Speaking generally, yes.
There are exceptions, and people are beginning to see the wisdom in insulation and decent heating systems.
They have other ways of coping with the cold, though. Sadly, few of these actually involve being genuinely warm.  |
During the summer they don't tend to stay very cool either, I spent a few weeks with my uncle in Tokyo a few summers ago, and anyone who knows anything about Tokyo in the summer knows that it becomes ungodly hot. My aunt is Japanese, and believes in many of the Japanese housewife superstitions such as: Air-conditioning is bad for you. She would leave the air conditioning off all day in more than 100 degree heat and only turn it on when my uncle or I got home. Everyone pray for my uncle, he lives next door to his mother-in-law who is slowly turning my aunt crazier and crazier.