that ran the gamut from cooling spritzers to high-performance workwear vests complete with cooling water systems.

The fashion show highlight was a collaboration between leading Japanese textile makers and Tokyo’s oldest fashion school, Bunka Gakuen University. Students were asked to apply their design skills to innovative fabrics and create cooling clothing for a competition that ended up attracting more than 800 entries. The winners’ outfits took to the runway, while designers joined former minister Koike, fashion designer Hiroko Koshino, creative director Takeo Kikuchi and stylist Yumiko Hara on stage for the award ceremony.

“The contest was not intended to create products for the market,” said Yoichiro Ide, senior managing director of The Japan Department Stores Association, who attended the event to showcase Cool Biz items already available in stores. “Itonline. The PTA blocked thousands of sites in 2007—not just those containing pornographic material or content offensive to Islam, but numerous vital websites and services—in response to a Supreme Court ruling that ordered the blocking of "blasphemous" websites. In 2008, they briefly blocked YouTube because the site hosted Geert Wilder's film "Fitna." They blocked it again in 2010, over a hosted clip of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari telling an unruly audience member to "shut up." In May of 2010, the PTA blocked Facebook in response to a controversy over a competition to draw the Prophet Mohammed.

Most recently in November of last year, the PTA sent a notice to Pakistani mobile carriers to ban 1,600 terms and phrases from SMS texts within seven days or they would face