All summer in Tokyo, Ms. Tsutsumi, a gray-ponytailed 73-year-old, has worried about getting sick from the heat.
“The other day it was so hot,” she recalls, “I went to a shrine and prayed, ‘Please let us survive this summer.'”
Like North America, Europe and other parts of Asia, Japan has been dealing with a scorching summer.
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