{"id":820200,"date":"2026-07-24T05:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820200\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T05:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:24:25","slug":"hundreds-hospitalised-in-japan-heatwave-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820200\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds hospitalised in Japan heatwave ‘disaster’"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOKYO: More than 450 people received hospital treatment for heat-related issues in a single day in Tokyo – the highest number since records began 16 years ago, emergency services said on Thursday (Jul 23).<\/p>\n

The figure was released as Japan sweltered in a heatwave<\/a> that has killed at least 14 people over the past week.<\/p>\n

A total 453 people had hospital treatment for heat-related issues on Wednesday, the most since records began in 2010, the Tokyo Fire Department said. Emergency callouts were also at the highest level since at least 1963.<\/p>\n

“We are urging people to stay hydrated and use air conditioners,” a fire brigade spokesman told AFP.<\/p>\n

The number of patients appeared to rise as temperatures climbed, with notable increases on Tuesday and Wednesday, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

In Tokyo prefecture – home to around 14 million people – one person had died in the current heatwave with four others in a critical condition and 18 in a serious state, he said.<\/p>\n

Nick Estes, 35, an American tourist visiting the Asakusa area of Tokyo with his family, said Thursday the weather was “extremely hot”.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been planning our trips around trying to make sure we can spend time in the metro to cool off, finding little shops to pop into to maybe buy a little souvenir that has air conditioning, doing everything we can to stay cool,” Estes told AFP.<\/p>\n

“But especially with younger kids, it’s been absolutely brutal … I was here last summer, actually, and somehow it actually feels even hotter this year than it did a year ago.”<\/p>\n

The Fire and Disaster Management Agency has dubbed the heatwave a “disaster”, reporting on Wednesday at least 14 deaths across the country over the previous week and 11,000 people seeking emergency medical care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO: More than 450 people received hospital treatment for heat-related issues in a single day in Tokyo –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,3286,941,128],"class_list":["post-820200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-heatwave","tag-japan","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}