Air-conditioned jackets help keep Tokyo workers from sizzling

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Japan endured another day of a searing heatwave on Monday (July 7), with temperatures soaring to the highest this year in Tokyo and leaving those having to work outside vulnerable to the risk of heatstroke. But, at an apartment construction site in Tokyo, workers for Daito Trust Construction donned puffy air-conditioned jackets equipped with cooling fans on their back while at work. Syakir Jasnee reports.

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