(18 Jun 2025)
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Tokyo – 18 June 2025
1. Various of people holding parasols, walking in the heat in central Tokyo
2. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Tomoya Nakaura, student in Tokyo:
“It suddenly got hot this week. It looks like the rainy season is over. Recently, I’ve been thinking about getting a parasol. But since I’m a man, I don’t have the habit of carrying them. I’m still thinking about it.”
3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Maho Kato, Tokyo resident:
“Ten years ago, it would have been still the middle of the rainy season, but the temperatures feel like what we used to get once the rainy season was over."
4. Various of cooling mist being sprayed for pedestrians
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Megan LaPoint, international schoolteacher in Tokyo:
"I’m pretty much treating it like it’s August right now, because this is standard weather for August. I actually, you’ll see a lot of people around have the parasols. So I actually have a parasol when I’m going to go for long walks. I go out in the early mornings and late evenings and try to avoid the heat during the day.”
6. Various of people crossing street
STORYLINE:
Tokyo residents were seen equipped with parasols, portable fans and bottled drinks in hand on Wednesday as the Japanese Meteorological Agency issued heatstroke advisories across Japan.
High temperatures hit western Japan, including in Tajima City in Gifu prefecture,e where it had reached 37.6 degrees Celsius (99.68 Fahrenheit).
In Tokyo, the temperature reached nearly 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) — unusually high for this time of the year, as residents adjusted to the intense summer heat.
“I’m pretty much treating it like it’s August right now,” said Megan LaPoint, a teacher at an international school in Tokyo.
According to the Tokyo Fire Department, more than 50 people were sent to hospital due to heatstrokes on Wednesday.
One person died from a heatstroke in the nearby Kanagawa prefecture, according to local authorities.
AP Video by Reeno Hashimoto and Ayaka McGill
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