{"id":73185,"date":"2025-07-31T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/31\/hot-weather-japan-south-korea-record-breaking-heat"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:29:47","slug":"japan-and-south-korea-reel-from-record-breaking-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73185","title":{"rendered":"Japan and South Korea reel from record-breaking heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea has experienced a record-breaking streak of \u2018tropical nights\u2019, while Japan saw its hottest day on record on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> have urged people to take precautions to prevent heatstroke, as the region reels from record-breaking temperatures and pressure on hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, South Korea\u2019s meteorological office said the country had experienced a record-breaking streak of \u201ctropical nights\u201d for 22 consecutive days this month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/31\/hot-weather-japan-south-korea-record-breaking-heat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea has experienced a record-breaking streak of \u2018tropical nights\u2019, while Japan saw its hottest day on record on ThursdayAuthorities in Japan and South Korea have urged people to take precautions to prevent heatstroke, as the region reels from r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"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":[41,88,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73185","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\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73186,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73185\/revisions\/73186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}