Elderly couple found dead in Tokyo home, heatstroke suspected - The Mainichi
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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

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
    161·
    1 year ago

    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

    • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
      18·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • tiredofsametab@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • inconel
      6·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • tiredofsametab@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    I was actually in Higashimurayama yesterday because they have a lot of motorcycle shops and I needed to buy a few things. It was absolutely miserable on my bike and even still quite warm in the shops WITH air on. The brief times of 30-40 kph were somewhat helpful, but still a lot of sitting in the sun with little to no wind and not moving. I checked my heartrate when I got back home and it was almost 160 and all I was doing was sitting on a bike in my gear for about ~35 minutes riding back home.