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How the World’s Most Elderly Country Is Fighting Heat in a Deadly Double Crisis

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By Jessie Yeung, Hanako Montgomery and Yumi Asada, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Whenever he’s home, 84-year-old Toshiaki Morioka carries an alarm device that measures temperature and humidity, which can summon emergency responders at the press of a button. He takes it to bed, to the kitchen, even to the bath. That’s because he knows he could easily fall victim to heatstroke – which kills hundreds of elderly Japanese each year, and which has impacted tens o…

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How the world’s most elderly country is fighting heat in a deadly double crisis

Japan is racing to combat an emergency killing hundreds of elderly each year: the collision of the climate crisis and its aging population.

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