The unprecedented high temperatures this summer have been devastating to the nation’s elderly population and have also altered Japan’s culture in unexpected ways.
But that may be starting to change, at least on a local level. In February, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government approved a real-estate developer’s plans to remake Meiji Jingu Gaien, one of the city’s few oases of greenery. It contains the Meiji Jingu Stadium, one of the last still standing where Babe Ruth played, and the Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, which will both be razed and rebuilt.
I have been visiting Japan since the early nineties and have lived in Tokyo for the last twenty years. I grew up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., the climate of which isn’t terribly different from that of Tokyo. But I spent much of my youth in air-conditioned spaces, whether home, car, school, or mall. Honestly, I never paid much attention to seasonal weather patterns unless they were outliers of the sort that might, hopefully, affect school attendance.
for the troubles of post-industrial nations. As the surveys and protests in Tokyo show, many Japanese people seem to feel that the time has come for a new story, in which leaders address climate change with open eyes. ♦
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