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This picture taken on April 6, 2019 shows people walking across the landmark pedestrian crossing in Tokyo's Shibuya district. Charly Tirballeau, AFP/file

This picture taken on April 6, 2019 shows people walking across the landmark pedestrian crossing in Tokyo's Shibuya district. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

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Deutsche Welle

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/175417979627020220922-japan.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">This picture taken on April 6, 2019 shows people walking across the landmark pedestrian crossing in Tokyo&#x27;s Shibuya district. Charly Tirballeau, AFP/file</span></span></span></div><p>People in Japan experienced their hottest July on record this year, with no respite in sight for some.</p><p>Officials warn that the northern and western regions of the country will continue to see &quot;severe heat&quot; in August.</p><p>Japan&#x27;s average monthly temperature in July was 2.89 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 average for the same month, the nation&#x27;s meteorological agency said on Friday.</p><p>On July 30, Japan experienced its highest ever recorded temperature — 41.2 Celsius in the western region of Hyogo.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Early end to rainy season<br/></strong></div><p>This is the third record-breaking July Japan has seen. The average monthly temperature reached new heights in 2023, 2024, and now in 2025.</p><p>This July is the warmest since the Japan Meteorological Agency began recording data in 1898.</p><p>People shield their eyes from the sun as they walk through a street on a hot day in Tokyo on July 26, 2025People shield their eyes from the sun as they walk through a street on a hot day in Tokyo on July 26, 2025</p><p>The average temperature in July was up a record 2.89 degree Celcius from the 1991-2020 average for the monthImage: Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP</p><p>Japan&#x27;s north and west also saw lower than average rainfall last month. The rainy season ended three weeks earlier than usual in western Japan, creating another unwanted record.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/health-science/2025/8/2/how-climate-change-is-changing-mountaineering-1141"><strong>How climate change is changing mountaineering</strong></a></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>Heat affecting cherry blossoms</strong></div><p>On Friday, the agency predicted more rainy and cloudy days in the first half of August, but more sunny days later in the month.</p><p>&quot;Please pay attention to temperature forecasts and heatstroke warning alerts, and take appropriate measures to prevent heatstroke. In areas with less precipitation, please be careful to manage your water,&quot; the agency&#x27;s press release warned.</p><p>The average temperature for June to August is &quot;likely to require the record, too,&quot; Yoshinori Oikawa, head of the weather agency&#x27;s Center for Information on Climate Extremes said, as reported by Japan Times.</p><p>Experts have warned that Japan&#x27;s famous cherry trees are blooming earlier than usual or not blooming completely due to this shift in weather caused by human-driven climate change. The winters are not long or cold enough to trigger flowering.</p>

<p>Another summer, another record-breaking heat wave in Japan — the country's weather agency is now urging the residents to manage their water consumption in areas with less rain.</p>

Another summer, another record-breaking heat wave in Japan — the country's weather agency is now urging the residents to manage their water consumption in areas with less rain.

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Japan braces for more heat after hottest July on record

Deutsche Welle

Published August 03, 2025 08:12 AM PHT

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