Japan turning to aloha shirts to solve power crisis

Japan Aloha Shirt CrisisNPR is running a cute story today on how the Aloha Shirt is contributing to help solve Japan's power woes after many power plants were shut down in the wake of the recent tsunami.

Government ministries are under orders to conserve office power any way possible, including shutting down elevators, shifting work hours to take advantage of natural light, and setting their buildings' thermostats to 82 degrees. The Japanese salarymen's typically business suits would be uncomfortably warm at that temperature, so the Environment Ministry has rolled out a new dress code, called "Super Cool Biz," which encourages wearing aloha and polo-style shirts.

Read Japanese Told To Beat The Heat With Hawaiian Shirts at NPR.org

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