{"id":62669,"date":"2026-07-23T05:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/62669\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:46:07","slug":"tokyo-reports-most-heat-related-hospitalisations-since-2010-one-dead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/62669\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo reports most heat-related hospitalisations since 2010, one dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/east-asia\/japan-cruelly-hot-heatwave-days-high-temperature-weather-6063456\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new term<\/a> this year to describe heat above 40\u00b0C called &#8220;kokushobi&#8221;, which translates to &#8220;cruelly hot day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The new term was designed to draw greater public attention to heat-related warnings, although it does not trigger any official measures nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>At least six other spots saw 39.8\u00b0C on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Heatstroke alerts were in place across almost the whole country and emergency officials said Wednesday that at least 14 people had died from heat-related causes in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 11,000 people sought emergency medical care in Japan in the past week, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen of those were pronounced dead upon arrival, the agency said, adding that the public must regard the extreme heat as a &#8220;disaster&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Temperatures have been rising since mid-July, and severe heat is expected to continue nationwide,&#8221; the disaster agency said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is no exaggeration to call this extreme heat a &#8216;disaster&#8217; with many people being rushed to hospitals or even dying as a result of heatstroke,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say human-induced climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events in Japan and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Japan sweltered through its hottest summer on record last year.<\/p>\n<p>Its highest recorded temperature was registered on Aug 5, 2025, at 41.8\u00b0C in Isesaki, north of Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan introduced a new term this year to describe heat above 40\u00b0C called &#8220;kokushobi&#8221;, which translates to &#8220;cruelly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38294,8,52],"class_list":["post-62669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tokyo","tag-heatwave","tag-japan","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}