I was in Japan on business a few times back when liberals were still fretting about a new ice age, and even then, the Japanese refused to use the air conditioning that they already had. In hot weather, their offices were like saunas.
This unwillingness to use A/C is nothing new with the Japanese. They seem to have an entirely different standard of personal comfort than we do.
The Chinese act goofy too about climate-controlled offices. Last summer, I made sure the air conditioner stayed on in the office and a group of women, out of protest, dressed up wearing winter coats and scarves. I called them eskimoes. But these same eskimoes who freaked out about air conditioning acted the opposite when the heat in the office got turned on in the dead of winter. They insisted on opening all the windows even when it -10 F outside. And guess what, they didn’t wear coats in the office. Many Chinese would drink boiling water in the summer and room temperature water in the winter. I was curious about these actions and apparently there’s some Chinese tale that airconditioning and heating causes sickness if the windows are closed.