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Originally Posted by GoNative
Up here in Hokkaido I find most Japanese houses and especially offices to be oppressively warm in winter. I would say on average up here they seem to like to keep the temperature at something around 24 degrees. I find this way too warm. As I say to them if it was that warm in the house in summer you'd want to put the aircon on! I've had many minor battles with Japanese staff over the years about how warm to have the heating in the office during winter. I prefer around 19 degrees but they'll often set it at 28 and still wrap themselves in blankets at their desk!
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This is something I think we agree on very much. While I find Japanese houses too be a bit to cold in the winter, offices and shopping areas and the like are kept TOO WARM. If you don't like breakin' a sweat during the summer because of the heat, then why'd you wanna do it in the winter? When the frost on the windows starts sweating and turning into water, then you know it's gone too far. However, I was under the impression that the whole "cool biz" , "warm biz" was to fight the temptation of cranking the heater or airconditioners too high.
I'm probably gonna die from a heart attack some day in the summer or the winter from walking in a conbini that is like 15 degrees hotter or colder than the temperature outside.
