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Japan’s Tokyo city male workers can wear shorts in summer. Some call it harassment
Tokyo's male workers can now wear shorts in summer offices under a policy by Governor Yuriko Koike, expanding on her 2005 energy-saving 'Cool Biz' campaign. Some critics label the policy as harassment.
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