[bamboozled]

At which point it will be far too late.

They'll be ok because they're sitting in air conditioned offices telling the peasants to turn off their lights and air conditioners. If people don't comply they can send out the law enforcement, maybe one day will be robots. Already started happening [1]

[1] https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan's-june-heatwa...

[lewantmontreal]

In your linked article they are specifically telling people not to turn off their air conditioners.

[bamboozled]

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/28/asia/japan-heatwave-air-c...

This article should be more to your liking.

I can't track it down in English but there are guidelines people need to follow, turning lights off during certain times and having air conditioners set to > 28c and not at unless required.

Japanese follow rules unlike many other cultures, they won't take these requests lightly and will be pretty uncomfortable doing what they're told.