The nation recorded its highest-ever temperature of 41.8°C, prompting the government to advise residents to stay indoors and promise steps to ease weather-related damage to rice crops.
Readings in the eastern city of Isesaki, in Gunma prefecture, surpassed the previous high of 41.2°C marked last week in the western city of Tamba in Hyogo prefecture, the country’s meteorological agency said yesterday.
