We reported 4,105 on Japan's worst heatstroke day. The final count is 4,134 — the fifth July running that the fire agency's first number came in low
Japan heatstroke correction: The Fold published 4,105 ambulance transports for 22 July. Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency finalised the month on Tuesday at 4,134, with twelve deaths rather than nine and 755 workplace calls rather than 744.
Japan's Environment Ministry says six hours a day went wrong for three months. Its own API puts a number on it: 10,213,104 deleted forecasts
Japan's Environment Ministry pulled the WBGT heat-index forecasts it issued in the 0, 1, 2, 12, 13 and 14 o'clock hours between 22 April and 22 July. Its own API measures the hole: 132 of 492 records per station-day, 92 days, 841 stations — 10,213,104 forecasts.
On Japan’s worst heatstroke day, 744 of the 4,105 ambulance calls came from a workplace
The rule Japan made mandatory in June 2025 does not require employers to prevent heatstroke. It requires them to notice it — and the ministry’s own casualty count hit a record while deaths fell 39%.
Japan’s worst heatstroke day on record: 4,105 people taken to hospital on 22 July
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency’s figures put 22 July above the previous daily high, set in 2018, by 296 people. The season read as light until late June; since then it has tracked the heaviest summer ever measured.
Japan's factory stockpiles rose for the first time since February, and carmakers drove it
METI's June industrial production figures show inventories turning up after three months of decline, with motor vehicles the largest single contributor — a reversal from May.
Kumamoto earthquake: Japan’s fire agency confirms three deaths and says 13 more are under investigation
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency’s seventeenth bulletin puts the verified toll at three, names the two towns, and then records separately that Kumamoto fire departments are reporting 13 further deaths not yet counted. Both numbers are in the same three-page document.
Kumamoto earthquake: Japan puts 354,000 people under its highest evacuation orders as two agencies differ on the magnitude
A Shindo 7 quake struck Kumamoto Prefecture at 16:27 local time. Japan’s fire agency had 354,284 people under its two highest evacuation levels by midnight, with rescues still running at a collapsed building.
Super Typhoon Bavi Barrels Toward Guam and Okinawa
Typhoon Bavi strengthened into a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon in the western Pacific, threatening Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands around July 6 before a forecast approach to Okinawa and Japan's Sakishima Islands later in the week.
Earlier coverage
- Japan's Takaichi to make first Europe trip for G7 summit in France
- Tropical Storm Jangmi prompts evacuation advisories for 800,000 in Japan
- Takaichi unveils $19bn fuel-relief package while pledging no new borrowing as the BOJ is squeezed
- Takaichi exempts 17 strategic sectors from three-year fiscal cap in growth investment overhaul
- Tokyo governor Koike pitches green-hydrogen city network from Astana
- Takaichi unveils $19 billion extra budget to cushion fuel and import costs
- Japan’s Takaichi heads to Seoul as Tokyo deepens regional security ties
- OECD calls Takaichi's zero food-tax plan "blunt and costly" as Tokyo misses fiscal target again
- Bessent to meet Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday before Seoul-Beijing leg
- Japan's METI confirms late-May Moscow delegation to safeguard corporate assets
- Japan suspected of second yen-buying intervention in a week