How to stay cool in Summer

The hot summer months are coming on full blast in Japan, Hawaii and New York. Putting on your air conditioner full blast only raises the temperature outside. So how to stay cool? Escape to the mountains and its cool streams is on way. Get the Fire Department to open up some Fire hydrant valves is another.

Spend the day at the community pool (In Japan it gets way too crowded!)
How about getting some natural shivers listening to ghost stories?
Ghost stories in Japan are synonymous with summer.
The most famous is "Kaidan" 怪談, a omnibus of ghost stories.
Here's one for your late night reading. Fufufufufufufufufu.

Bancho Sarayashiki

Okiku works as a maid at the home of the samurai Tessan Aoyama.  One day while cleaning a collection of ten precious ceramic plates--a family treasure--she accidentally breaks one of them. The outraged Aoyama kills her and throws the corpse into an old well. Every night afterwards, Okiku's ghost rises from the well, counts slowly to nine and then breaks into heartrending sobs, over and over and over again, tormenting the samurai. Finally, vengeance is wrought when Aoyama goes insane.

Pssst. Who's that looking over your shoulder?????(- -;)  Ichimai, Nimai, Sanmai, Yonmai................