TOKYO — At least six people died of heat stroke in Tokyo as Japan swelters under a rare rainy-season heat wave, prompting authorities to issue a flurry of health warnings.
Over the weekend, the central Shizuoka region became the first in Japan to see the mercury reach 40 degrees Celsius this year, far surpassing the 35-degree threshold classified by weather officials as 'extremely hot.'Such severe heat in the middle of Japan 's rainy season is 'rather rare,' caused in part by a strong South Pacific high-pressure system, a weather agency official told Agence France-Presse .
Because I'm old, I'm being careful not to collapse,' she said.Heat stroke is particularly deadly in Japan, which has the second-oldest population in the world, after Monaco.Yamamoto's age puts her in the demographic flagged by health experts as particularly vulnerable to heat stroke, along with infants and those living alone or who are too poor to afford air-conditioning.
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