{"id":58533,"date":"2023-09-20T14:07:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T05:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/20\/japan-heatwave-autumn-temperatures-august-tokyo"},"modified":"2023-09-20T14:07:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T05:07:54","slug":"japan-swelters-through-abnormal-autumn-with-warnings-of-more-heat-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58533","title":{"rendered":"Japan swelters through \u2018abnormal\u2019 autumn, with warnings of more heat to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After experiencing a record-breaking number of \u2018extremely hot\u2019 days in summer, the unusually high temperatures are due to continue<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/19\/japan-matsutake-mushroom-under-threat\">Matsutake<\/a> mushrooms and persimmons have appeared on supermarket shelves, along with seasonal beers and sakes. In Tokyo neighbourhoods, residents carry portable shrines through the streets at festivals to mark the end of summer, and children get ready for school sports days.<\/p>\n<p>Autumn, though, has yet to make an appearance in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>. Instead, experts are warning that the crisp, sunny days that usually offer relief at the end of a sweltering summer are still some way off, with one describing the weather as \u201cabnormal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/20\/japan-heatwave-autumn-temperatures-august-tokyo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After experiencing a record-breaking number of \u2018extremely hot\u2019 days in summer, the unusually high temperatures are due to continueMatsutake mushrooms and persimmons have appeared on supermarket shelves, along with seasonal beers and sakes. In Tokyo nei&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2331,2962,65,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-el-nino-southern-oscillation","category-environment","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58534,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58533\/revisions\/58534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}