My son calls it "air you can wear."
He forgets to say it is not a fashion of choice. We all wear it. We have to. Each and every one of us -- the 30 million sweltering inhabitants of the Kanto Plain.
Plus most of Japan's other 90 million as well. We live these August days laminated in the clinging layers of summer.
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