
All summer in Tokyo, Ms. Tsutsumi, a gray-ponytailed 73-year-old, has worried about getting sick from the heat.
"The other day it was so hot," she recalls, "I went to a shrine and prayed, 'Please let us survive this summer.'"

All summer in Tokyo, Ms. Tsutsumi, a gray-ponytailed 73-year-old, has worried about getting sick from the heat.
"The other day it was so hot," she recalls, "I went to a shrine and prayed, 'Please let us survive this summer.'"