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The Japan Times has two good columnists on Saturday. Japan Lite written by Amy Chavez - a cow fanatic living on Japan`s Shiraishi Island and Thomas Dillon`s When East marries West - a bi-monthly humorous column on life in Japan with his wife.

I`ve written before about Amy Chavez when she was suffering from the extremeties of the Japanese winter and now Thomas Dillon writes about the hot and humid hell of a Japanese summer:

My son calls it “air you can wear.”

He forgets to say it is not a fashion of choice. We all wear it. We have to. Each and every one of us — the 30 million sweltering inhabitants of the Kanto Plain.

Plus most of Japan’s other 90 million as well. We live these August days laminated in the clinging layers of summer.

Few places are as dismal as the city when it sizzles. But Tokyo doesn’t sizzle. It steams. And the air that you wear can wear you down.

You can get all of Amy Chavez`s columns in one place and Thomas Dillons at the bottom of this page