{"id":63727,"date":"2026-07-25T09:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/63727\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:51:24","slug":"tokyo-reports-most-heat-related-hospitalizations-since-2010-one-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/63727\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo reports most heat-related hospitalizations since 2010, one dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOKYO \u2014 Tokyo recorded on Wednesday the most daily heat-related hospitalizations since 2010, emergency services said as Japan sweltered in a severe heatwave, with one person dead and four in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

The Tokyo Fire Department said 453 people were taken to hospital on Wednesday, the highest daily count since records began in 2010.<\/p>\n

The number of times emergency services were deployed that day also hit a 63-year high.<\/p>\n

“We are urging people to stay hydrated and use air conditioners,” a fire brigade spokesman told Agence France-Presse on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“It seems like the number (of patients) rose as the temperature rose. It seems like yesterday (Wednesday) and the day before yesterday, we really saw notable increases,” the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

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He said that one person had died, with four others in a critical condition and 18 in a serious state in Tokyo prefecture \u2014 home to around 14 million people.<\/p>\n

In the entire central region of Aichi, which includes Nagoya, 116 people were taken to hospital on Wednesday for heat-related conditions, officials said.<\/p>\n

The same day four locations \u2014 one in the Mie region, two in Gifu and one in Shizuoka \u2014 saw temperatures above 40C, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).<\/p>\n

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\n A woman carries a small fan to cool down while waiting to cross the street in Tokyo on July 23, 2026. AFP PHOTO\n <\/p>\n

Japan introduced this year a new term to describe heat above 40C called “kokushobi,” which translates to “cruelly hot day.”<\/p>\n

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

At least six other spots saw 39.8C on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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

Almost 11,000 people sought emergency medical care in Japan in the past week, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.<\/p>\n

Fourteen of those were pronounced dead upon arrival, the agency said, adding that the public must regard the extreme heat as a “disaster.”<\/p>\n

“Temperatures have been rising since mid-July, and severe heat is expected to continue nationwide,” the disaster agency said.<\/p>\n

“It is no exaggeration to call this extreme heat a ‘disaster’ with many people being rushed to hospitals or even dying as a result of heatstroke,” it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO \u2014 Tokyo recorded on Wednesday the most daily heat-related hospitalizations since 2010, emergency services said as Japan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41217,16253,30035,41216,6504,41218,9012,41213,13303,10226,8189,41219,41212,41220,38294,41210,13509,8,4841,29497,41221,29763,10268,41222,41211,13680,41214,52,22381,41215],"class_list":["post-63727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tokyo","tag-40c-temperatures","tag-aichi","tag-air-conditioners","tag-central-region","tag-critical-condition","tag-cruelly-hot-day","tag-disaster","tag-emergency-services","tag-extreme-heat","tag-fire-and-disaster-management-agency","tag-gifu","tag-heat-warnings","tag-heat-related-deaths","tag-heatstroke-alerts","tag-heatwave","tag-hospitalizations","tag-hydration","tag-japan","tag-japan-meteorological-agency","tag-kokushobi","tag-mid-july","tag-mie","tag-nagoya","tag-nationwide-heat","tag-severe-heat","tag-shizuoka","tag-temperature-rise","tag-tokyo","tag-tokyo-fire-department","tag-tokyo-prefecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63727","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=63727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}