Japan swelters through rising heat – in pictures

For Japan, days where the mercury soars above 40C now have their own term – kokushobi (酷暑日), or ‘cruelly hot day’, as rising temperatures cause heatstroke deaths and impact on crop yields across the country Japan records its first ‘cruelly hot day’ as cities swelter in 40-degree…

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