The average summer temperature in London is actually lower then Moscow and the season is shorter, never mind the more southern areas of Russia. Sevastopol where Gangut was based during the war is actually rather similiar to the highs in central Japan.
Like Japanese people do know other places have summers right?
The average summer temperature in London is actually lower then Moscow and the season is shorter, never mind the more southern areas of Russia. Sevastopol where Gangut was based during the war is actually rather similiar to the highs in central Japan.
Like Japanese people do know other places have summers right?
Most of Japanese don't know much other countries's climate and culture. As same as, many Westerners don't like kokatsu since it can't warm the entire room, it restrict their free space.
The city I live is incredibly hot (and humid to boot), so I find their complaints about the heat on those seasons to be unfounded. Damn, complaining about a 25+ °C temperature and a 70% humidity should be wrong, I live at 32 °C avg and 80% humidity.
The city I live is incredibly hot (and humid to boot), so I find their complaints about the heat on those seasons to be unfounded. Damn, complaining about a 25+ °C temperature and a 70% humidity should be wrong, I live at 32 °C avg and 80% humidity.
Presently 30 °C and 20% humidity in this part of California with a high of 40 °C last week.
Going past 30 a lot, with constant 80+% (90 today!) humidity in Kyushu. (Tokyo is 32 and 75% today, though). Certainly, it's not as hot as, say, Pheonix or Tehran, but you can't say that Japan's summers aren't hot at all. People bitch about the heat much less in August, once the rainy season passes, too - though I did get heat exhaustion at the last Summer Comiket, even with cooling pads and sprays, fans and plenty of liquid (carrying around stacks of doujin does a number on your stamina).
Another thing that Japan does is put incredible emphasis on the seasons, more than some other countries. Season-limited goods and foods, seasonal festivals, things that can only (but not really) be done in certain seasons (Firework displays are only for summer, never any other season, for example). This is one of the reasons there's the stereotype of Japanese people saying "We have four seasons" - the seasons are pretty distinct and they're linked, culturally, to many other things. This is not to say that other places don't do the same, it's just that with the fairly limited exposure that Japanese people get to other cultures (I mean, they know that other places have seasons and all, they're taught it in school) there's less awareness of other culture's seasonality.
Also, the overseas media that you here certainly doesn't go on about seasons nearly as much as Japanese TV does (and it does so very much). When Japan thinks 'not-Japan' it's 'the West' (read America), and the image presented of that isn't one that suffers through a hot and sticky summer (even if it's certainly present). Hence, (white) foreigners are usually depicted as being affected heavily by the Japanese summer.
The humidity is what gets me with Japanese summer, 30°C at high humidity feels completely different to 30°C at low humidity. Not that I'm good with heat in the first place though.
And from my experience they really love pushing the whole "we have four seasons" thing, like it was rare thing to have. Guess it goes to show that stereotypically they don't really have a good grasp on the climate of foreign (Western at least) countries. Like for example when I say I'm from Sweden many assume it's always really cold there (although I guess that's a common stereotype) and a few have been surprised that we have four seasons (just like Japan).
Coming from the East Coast of the United States, where the humidity ranges from roughly 80% to 110% at any given time, I always found whining about humidity to be a strange thing... but then again, we actually have insulated houses and freakin' central air instead of relying upon fans and tubs of water.
So far as Sweden goes, it's probably a bit of mental overlap with Norway, which doesn't have the more moderating Baltic, but even so, the mountainous inland and more northern reaches where less people live are definitely quite cold.
I was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia. Spent around a year or so in Wakayama for studying purposes. Even with me being used to the heat--hailing from a tropical country and all, Japan's summers are NOT to be underestimated. I felt like a living yakiniku when I had to walk 2km just to look for a vending machine---and spent nearly 20.000 yen on electric bills due to the repeated AC usage. Without AC, the apartment I stayed in felt like a furnace. I could even WATCH the iced tea I bought from a nearby supermarket(and stored inside the freezer for a while) melt into a bottle of hot tea. And I heard from my friend that Australia's summers are even worse. Tl;dr, I HATE THE HEAT. I can run around in the snow with just my t-shirt and shorts and a pair of flip-flops, but I can't stand heat.
I got the opposite. I grew up in sunny southern California, so 100+F summers aren't too much of a bother to me, but when I spent a few years in Wisconsin for work I just could not stand the cold, heh. I like my snow neatly confined to mountains and ski resorts.
Like for example when I say I'm from Sweden many assume it's always really cold there (although I guess that's a common stereotype) and a few have been surprised that we have four seasons (just like Japan).
I thought we mostly just have rain, rain, and rain with a few weeks of snow and a few weeks of heat.
Coming from the East Coast of the United States, where the humidity ranges from roughly 80% to 110% at any given time, I always found whining about humidity to be a strange thing... but then again, we actually have insulated houses and freakin' central air instead of relying upon fans and tubs of water.
The US East coast is actually rather climatically similar to Japan along it's largely shared latitudes although tending to have less precipitation at the ends of the said latitudes, but similiar temperatures and humidity. Although more of the population density in Japan is toward the warmer southern parts of that range while the opposite is largely true in the US East Coast.
The average summer temperature in London is actually lower then Moscow and the season is shorter, never mind the more southern areas of Russia. Sevastopol where Gangut was based during the war is actually rather similiar to the highs in central Japan.
Where did you get the idea that Gangut was in Sevastopol? As far as I can see her entire life was spent in and around the Baltic.
Oh?Done in by the summer of Japan, you say?I am so sorry to hear that.You don't feel sorry at all, do you?The key issue here is your disposition.With a tranquil state of mind, even FIRE is COOL.Both 'fire' and 'cool' are in English.Have you ever heard of this Japanese proverb?I see....Achieve a state of nothingness in your mind, and you shall no longer feel pain nor suffering.Oh...As an English Lady, my mind is already well accustomed to heat such as this. It is but a mere trifle for me.
