Japan’s heatwave: How the world’s most elderly country is fighting heat in a deadly double crisis

Tokyo
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Whenever he’s home, 84-year-old Toshiaki Morioka carries an alarm device that measures temperature and humidity, which can summon emergency responders at the press of a button. He takes it to bed, to the kitchen, even to the bath.

That’s because he knows he could easily fall victim to heatstroke…