{"id":283403,"date":"2026-07-14T19:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=283403"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:30:54","slug":"over-4500-hospitalized-in-japan-due-to-heatstroke-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/283403\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 4,500 hospitalized in Japan due to heatstroke in one week"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>More than 4,500 people were hospitalized in Japan last week due to heatstroke, the country&rsquo;s fire and disaster management agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, 4,580 people were taken to hospitals for heatstroke between July 6 and 12, while seven others died. Since the ministry began releasing such statistics in early May, the number of people hospitalized has exceeded 13,000, with the death toll reaching 12.<\/p>\n<p>Japan typically experiences its hottest weather in July and August. On July 14, temperatures reached 38.4&deg;C in K&#333;chi Prefecture and 37&deg;C in Gunma Prefecture, located near Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, tens of thousands of people in Japan are hospitalized due to heatstroke, with hundreds of deaths reported in severe cases.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 4,500 people were hospitalized in Japan last week due to heatstroke, the country&rsquo;s fire and disaster management agency reports. According to the agency, 4,580 people were taken to hospitals for heatstroke between July 6 and 12, while seven others died. Since the ministry began releasing such statistics in early May, the number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":283085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283405,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283403\/revisions\/283405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}