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Japanese who are complaining of suffering through the hottest summer they ve ever endured now have their belief endorsed by the country’s weather agency.
Typhoon No. 7 forced residents to evacuate their homes, caused power outages over a wide area and led to at least one serious injury after making landfall on Aug. 15.
An unseasonable heat wave pushed temperatures up across the country on May 17 to record highs in some parts, and also sent seven junior high school students to the hospital in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, with heat stroke.