[앵커]
As the heat near 40 degrees continues in Japan, the elderly who are vulnerable to the heat are dying one after another.
On the other hand, a large typhoon is approaching the Okinawa region, and the worry due to weather damage is growing.
Correspondent Kim Se-ho reports from Tokyo.
[기자]
In downtown Tokyo, the temperature has already exceeded 35.5 degrees past 11 am.
Saitama Prefecture recorded 39 degrees in the afternoon, and most areas in Japan have reached 35 degrees or more and 40 degrees every day.
[도쿄 시민 : 이런 더위가 계속 이어져 왔는데, 밤에도 잠을 못 자요,]
[도쿄 시민 : 일반 공원은 가지 않게 됐습니다. 이제 물이 있는 공원만 찾습니다.]
As the scorching heat continued, deaths presumed to be heat stroke followed.
On the 29th, a husband in his 90s and a wife in their 80s died in Tokyo, and on the 30th, an elderly couple in their 70s died, and both air conditioners were turned off.
In Japan, an average of 1,000 people die from heat stroke every year.
[마츠모토 요시로 / 일본의사회 회장 : 한 해 천 명 이상이 사망했다고 상상하는 것은 대재난과 필적합니다. 65세 이상 사망자수가 80%를 넘어가고 있습니다.]
Products with various technologies to cope with this murderous heat are also attracting attention.
Various ideas have emerged, such as clothes with fans that can blow air and water-cooled vests.
[업계 관계자 : 열사병에 걸리지 않도록 하고 억제할 기술을 보급하고 싶고, 이후 작업 현장 뿐 아니라 평소 생활에서 대처가 가능하도록 하면 좋지 않겠나 생각합니다.]
In the midst of this, as Typhoon No. 6 approaches Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, there are already concerns about damage, such as flight cancellations one after another.
Japan has been suffering throughout this summer as it faces heat waves and typhoons one after another.
This is YTN Seho Kim from Tokyo.
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2023-07-31 12:00:00
