On the 23rd, when the highest temperature in the history of domestic observation was renewed, there were successive deaths seen as heat stroke in various places. The event is canceled, and it has been affected.

The maximum temperature in domestic history so far was 2013 in Shimanto City, Kochi Prefecture, which observed 41.0 degrees. This year the number of points where it will be a hot summer greatly exceeded five years ago, and it has been hit by a fierce heat in a wide area.

Saitama prefecture Kumagaya city which updated the highest temperature ever. A lot of citizens visited the Yagi Bridge department store in the city center tower, and displayed the indication "41 · 1 degree" of the large thermometer in the photograph. Yutaka Miyaji, director of sales promotion director, just recently redesigned the thermometer design, said, "I feel like I have something in Japan as a model change."

Ome city which became the first 40 degrees in Tokyo. Miwa Sayama (36) who visited the city's "Wakagase Park Children Pool", Mr. Miwa Sayama (4), who was visited by his eldest son Roja (Luka) (4) said, "Even though we ran away from home, I'm surprised that the poolside will walk on a frying pan. "

On this day as well, a number of deaths suspected of heat stroke occurred in various places, emergency transportation continued.

In metropolitan houses in Kita Ward, Tokyo, 93 and 84-year-old sisters were found dead. There was no air conditioner or fan. In Saitama prefecture and Gunma prefecture, 5 males and females aged 67 to 90 passed away. A 50-year-old woman also died in Nara prefecture. When found at home at night on the 22nd, air conditioners and electric fans were not used, and the interior was said to be hot.

According to the Tokyo Fire and Disaster Management Agency, people transported this year with suspicion of heat stroke will be 3544 people (preliminary figures) by the 22nd in the pipe (in the city except Inagi city and the island <> department)), It exceeded 3454 people.

Following a fierce heat, the event is canceled one after another. At the Gion Festival held in Kyoto, about 800 people, including children and maiko (Mikoshi) carrying a shrine (Mikoshi) walking through the center of Kyoto city, were scheduled on the 24th, but the cancellation was decided . It is an event that began in 1966, but it is the first time to stop by high temperature.