TOKYO (Kyodo) – An elderly husband and wife were found dead in their Tokyo home Saturday, with police suspecting they may have died of heatstroke as
TOKYO (Kyodo) – An elderly husband and wife were found dead in their Tokyo home Saturday, with police suspecting they may have died of heatstroke as
The AC was there but not in use? I wonder if they believed a weird old wove’s tale about it being dangerous to run for too long or something
It also might have been because electricity costs recently shot up between 24-46% all around Japan a month or so ago. Tokyo prices went up about 25% and it was 46% in Hokkaido. Just in time for summer. They might’ve been trying to save money by having it off at night.
My in-laws in northern Japan don’t run their AC at night. I don’t know the exact reason, but it’s not uncommon. They have no screens in some windows, so we couldn’t just open the windows either. It was unusually hot and I felt like I was going to die (I woke up feeling like I couldn’t breathe and there was no air movement). The screens are necessary unless we want a house full of roaches, mice, lizards, flies, mosquitoes, etc.
AC could die all of the sudden too. One of my friends had it last summer in Tokyo, had to spend week w/o AC. It happened when he was awake in the morning, but I heard other horror stories of AC stopped at night and waking up with severe dehydration symptoms.