Mastodawn

Heatstroke casualties in Japan's workplaces hit a fresh record-high last year -- more than triple the number from the year before -- amid extreme summer heat:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260527/p2g/00m/0na/052000c

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #Heatwave #Japan #KokushoBi

Heatstroke casualties at workplace in Japan hits record-high 1,803 in 2025 - The Mainichi

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Heatstroke casualties in the workplace hit a fresh record-high 1,803 in 2025, up 546 from a year earlier amid extreme summer heat, he

The Mainichi

atomicker 4d ago

"Japan braces for record-breaking heat":

"Japan has endured record-breaking heat in recent years. Driven by global warming and other factors, the number of summer days hitting temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius or higher has increased sharply."

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/4819/

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atomicker May 14

The term “kokusho-bi,” meaning brutally hot day, is written next to the 40 C mark on a thermometer in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, on Thursday. The new term was recently created by the Japan Meteorological Agency to refer to a day that has a high of at least 40 C.

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20260514-327533/

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Nikolas Kozloff Apr 20

Time for yet more new #climate #terminology: #kokushobi https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/20/japan-announces-new-name-for-days-over-40c-after-hottest-summer-ever #japan

Japan reveals a new official name for ‘cruelly hot’ days

‘Kokushobi’ will be used in weather forecasts to warn that extreme heat is on the way.

euronews

Dmitri Goosens

Apr 20

Don't say « it's f*** hot » anymore... Say it's kokushobi !

Cuz naming things is the first step to make them exist...

This is exactly the opposite of, for instance, a US administration that bans words.
That's Orwell's Newspeak... Remove the words to express the concepts you don't want to see, and the whole concepts will disappear in the end...

#kokushobi, is just the opposite...
love this

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-17/japan-unveils-name-for-scorching-days-as-heat-waves-intensify