More than 100,000 people were sent to hospitals due to heat stroke in Japan between May 1 and Sept. 28, according to preliminary data from the nation’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
The number is the most on record, according to broadcaster NHK. Transport to hospitals of patients linked to heat stroke over the period rose almost 3% to 100,143 from a year earlier as Japan saw its national temperature record broken twice in a matter of days. The country’s average temperature during this summer was the highest since the statistic began being compiled in 1898, the nation’s weather agency saidBloomberg Terminal last month.
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