@atomicker The other day the Tenseijingo column in the Asahi started with a quote from Natsume Soseki's novel, "I am a Cat", which has the cat complaining about the summer heat.The author looked up the summer temperatures for the year the novel was written. The high temperatures were...30 degress Centigrade.Last summer, 10,000 people were hospitalized in Japan for heat-related problems. The first responder work of getting such patients to a hospital is brutal. F'ing saints, they is.