An intense heat wave in Japan has cost the lives of at least fourteen people in recent days. Thousands of people had to be treated in hospitals after they became unwell due to high temperatures, reports Japanese media. The mercury rose to above 39 degrees in some places on Monday.
The world economy is still growing well. But it takes less and less to bring that growth out of balance.
A heat wave killed five people in Japan and 1500 people had to be admitted to the hospital. It was the hottest in Hiroshima. In that region the mercury increased to 38 degrees, Japanese media reported.
Jean-Claude Juncker thanks Prime Minister Mark Rutte for the support he offered him Wednesday night when he had pain attacks as a result of a disorder on his back. The President of the European Commission also thanked the Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa, who also helped keep Juncker going for dinner at the NATO summit in Brussels.
After the unprecedented heavy rainfall and flooding, the disaster area in western Japan is now plagued by great heat and a lack of clean (drinking) water. In the meantime, the number of deaths as a result of the severe weather has risen to 195.
A summit this week between the EU and Japan, in the presence of the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, has been postponed to 17 July for one week and moved from Brussels to Tokyo. That was decided in connection with the severe weather in Japan. Abe does not want to leave the country now.
The death toll in Japan as a result of the heavy rainfall and flooding has risen to over 100. Dozens of people are still missing, the Japanese authorities report. Because of the heavy thunderstorms and associated torrential rains, parts of the south and west of the country are flooded.
The death toll due to the heavy rainfall in Japan has risen to at least 66. Sundays, too, rivers ran off their banks, forcing millions of people to leave their homes, Japanese media report. Dozens of people are still missing.
The death toll due to the extreme weather in Japan has risen to fifteen. Approximately fifty people are still missing. At least 1.6 million people had to be evacuated. That is what Japanese media report.
In Japan, two people died as a result of extreme rain showers. Hundreds of thousands of inhabitants in the west and middle of the country have been evacuated because of the rainfall rivers flood and there is a danger of landslides
In Japan, the former leader of the sect Aum Shinrikyo, who was behind the attack with the nerve gas sarin in the Tokyo metro in 1995, was put to death. Shoko Asahara, is the first of thirteen sect members sentenced to death who were executed, confirmed the secretary of the cabinet.
Octopus Rabiot, who knew how to predict the outcome of three World Cup matches in Japan, has been eaten. The octopus that became a national prominence was sold on the market after the third correct prediction.
The Thai authorities have released a new video of the twelve football players who have been stuck in a cave for days. In the video you can see that most guys wear an insulation blanket. The footballers also introduce themselves and say: 'I am in good health.'
The evacuation of the boys from the cave system is a race against the clock and so the boys who can cope with it must leave the cave as soon as possible. That says governor Passakorn Boonyarat of Chiang Rai province. He does not want to speculate about how long the boys may have to stay in the cave.
The Belgians wake up with a big smile on Tuesday morning. But after the football sheller against Japan, there is the realization that the Brazilians will have to be tapped from another barrel.
The twelve boys and their football coach were found alive in a cave system in Thailand. The team had been missing for nine days.
Rescue workers in Thailand are approaching the spot where a youth football team may be stuck in a flooded cave system. Divers of an army unit are less than 500 meters from the space where the twelve teenagers and their coach may have sought a safe haven.
The Japanese emperor Akihito has laid down his public duties for the coming period for health reasons. The 84-year-old emperor gets too little oxygen in his brain, causing him to experience dizziness and nausea.
In an earthquake in Osaka in the west of Japan, at least two people were killed. It concerns an eighty-year-old man and a nine-year-old girl, reports the television channel NHK.
A high-profile statement by Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Canada. According to reports, he told the Prime Minister of Japan, Chinzo Abe, that he could send 25 million Mexicans to his country, to teach him something about the migration issue.
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has adjusted its expectations for inflation downwards. The central bank of Japan left its interest rate policy unchanged as expected.
North Korea only needs to rely on relief from international sanctions if it can demonstrate that all nuclear weapons have been dismantled. That said the American minister Mike Pompeo (Foreign Affairs), who said that China, South Korea and Japan support that position.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said at the summit with US President Donald Trump that he is open to a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. This is reported by the Japanese newspaper Japan Times on the basis of government sources.
Automaker Toyota is investing heavily in the taxi app Grab. The Japanese group is investing $ 1 billion in Uber's Singaporean competitor, which was announced on Wednesday. Two managers of Toyota will have a management position at Grab as a result of the investment.
An American fighter plane crashed in Japanese waters on Monday. This happened during a training mission near the southern island of Okinawa, where some of the American forces are stationed in Japan.
Soft drink giant Coca-Cola has an alcoholic drink for the first time in its 125-year history. For the time being, however, the fruit flavored drink is only available in Japan.
A Japanese conductor has made an 'unforgivable' mistake. He had left a few seconds too early. It is now the second time in half a year that a Japanese public transport company apologizes for a train that left too early.
A man stabbed four members of the same family in a restaurant in Japan. One of the victims, a six-year-old girl, was killed. The police have arrested the suspected perpetrator, reports Japanese media.
More than 1,000 enthusiasts have said they are going to Las Vegas to take part in a record attempt for the world's biggest orgy.
