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From Mainichi News:The temperature in Tokyo hit 39.5 degrees Celsius on Tuesday afternoon, the highest figure ever recorded in the capital of Japan since the government began measuring it in 1923, weather officials said.

The previous highest temperature in Tokyo was 39.1 degrees Celsius on Aug. 3, 1994. Japan’s highest record stands at 40.8 degrees Celsius, which was recorded in Yamagata in July 1933.

And it’s still hot (at 1:30am - too yucky to sleep) Not the best year to have moved to an apartment with no airconditioner I guess… Actually this apartment is really quite cool if there is a breeze - just wish there was one now…

Not all that sure that it’s something to get too excited about. I grew up in Adelaide after all. There you can have several days of it being over 40 degrees. Where my Mum lives it regularly hits over 45 in summer (well it is desert there I guess). So the fact that people are keeling over is quite surprising. If you had people dying in Oz from it being over 39 degrees you’d lose massive numbers of people every year.

Is it because hot weather is something you get used to? Or because you learn how to deal with it? Was it dehydration (although I’m not sure how anyone can’t be drinking at least 2 litres of water a day right now)?

When I rode my bicycle into the corral tonight I was a bit suprised to see one of my neighbours - a teenage boy - jumping rope. Sweat was pouring off of him. He shouted out a hearty konban wa, and I said that jumping rope was good excercise but wasn’t it a bit hot to do that? (Yes, yes I’d just ridden a bicycle for 20 minutes but not for the hell of it.) He said that it was for his diet. I was like what??? The kid was a stick figure already. I told him not to overdo it and drink plenty of water. He assured me that he would, but as I trumped up the 4 flights of stairs to my apartment I wondered what kind of warped perspective would make a skinny kid exercise in this heat?

• 15 000 people died from the heat last year in France! It was mainly elderly and ill people.

  Meenoo
  04/07/21 02:17 AM

• yay! another Aussie in Japan. Unfortunately im from Sydney. Well Tokyo sounds hot and sticky. Im coming to Japan in 2005 as an exchange student not sure where im being placed yet but sounds like the weather can be similar to Sydneys.

  jieshi
  04/07/22 04:42 PM

• yay! another Aussie in Japan. Unfortunately im from Sydney. Well Tokyo sounds hot and sticky. Im coming to Japan in 2005 as an exchange student not sure where im being placed yet but sounds like the weather can be similar to Sydneys.

  jieshi
  04/07/22 04:42 PM