When moving to Japan from my rather cold and snowy hometown, I had been warned about the high heat and humidity of summer in Japan and did my best to pack for it. Yet I was completely unprepared for the utter damp, sweltering misery I was about to experience. This may seem surprising to those who have never experienced a Japanese summer. After all, in Japan, the leaves change in the autumn, and some places get an alarming amount of snow in winter, so some may assume the summers resemble those of temperate climates. In reality, Japanese summers are less like Canada’s and more like summers in So…