This year’s Cool Biz campaign, designed to encourage office workers to dress lightly to reduce air conditioner use in summer, started at central government offices in the Kasumigaseki district of Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward on Tuesday.
This year’s Cool Biz campaign, designed to encourage office workers to dress lightly to reduce air conditioner use in summer, started at central government offices in the Kasumigaseki district of Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward on Tuesday.
At the Environment Ministry, which spearheads the campaign, many workers showed up without ties and some wore „kariyushi“ traditional short-sleeved shirts from the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa. In the campaign, launched in 2005, the ministry urges offices to set air conditioner temperatures at 28 degrees Celsius for power-saving as a measure against global warming and allow workers to dress casually instead.
