Families Told to Huddle Around One TV in Japan Bid to Save Power
- Japan sees tight power supplies through summer and winter
- Cabinet ministers to meet to discuss power measures: NHK
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Japan’s government is ratcheting up calls for citizens to do anything they can to conserve electricity as the country faces a power supply crunch this summer.
“Families should gather around a single television, and not use air conditioners in other rooms,” Trade Minister Koichi Hagiuda said in Tokyo on Friday. “Families should do what they can to save electricity.”