Mai Nishida Summer Beach Breasts

 
Summer on the main island of Japan is hot, humid and often just plain hard work.

The baking heat is omnipresent. In response, much of downtown Tokyo has become a city that lives, ant-like, underground. Venture onto the baking streets and the 35 plus temperature makes you gasp for breath, break out in an instant sweat and, quite simply, dream of being someplace else.

So it is not surprising that during these muggy summer months the Japanese consider a trip to the beach an important escape.