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Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Desperate Times. Drastic Measures.

A wave of informality is due to sweep through Japan with a government campaign to persuade office workers to abandon their jackets and ties.

Temperatures and humidity rise to unbearable levels over the next three months in Japan's cities and so does the use of air conditioning.

The government thinks this is standing in the way of lowering its emissions of greenhouse gases.

So it has launched a campaign to get the country's salary-men to abandon their suits this summer.

It has asked businesses to raise the temperature in their offices to a sweaty 28 degrees, making the standard jacket and tie uncomfortably hot.

At the moment Japan is well behind its agreed target under the Kyoto Protocol.

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