Japan's 'Human Fridges' Offer Refuge From Record Summer Heat

Over 53,000 people treated for heatstroke with 79 reported deaths in two months during Japan's extreme summer heat.

As Japan's summers grow lethal rather than merely uncomfortable, the country has begun placing human-sized cooling chambers in its public spaces — a quiet acknowledgment that the old ways of enduring heat are no longer enough. In just two months, more than 53,000 people have sought treatment for heatstroke and 79 have died, pressing both government and industry toward urgent, unconventional answers. The Do Hiemon, a walk-in cooling box priced at roughly $9,400, is less a gadget than a signal: that cities built for one climate must now be retrofitted for another, and that survival itself is bec

Japan's 'Human Fridges' Offer Refuge From Record Summer Heat

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