Japan battles extreme heat with night shifts and human fridges

Heat stress is rising worldwide as human-induced climate change makes extremely high temperatures more frequent and severe, and Japan is adapting to a new reality of dangerous summer heat. At one flower farm, workers now harvest at night under greenhouse lights after a colleague suffered heatstroke. In a single week last month, more than 10,800 people were treated for heatstroke, double the number from the same period in 2025. In Osaka, warehouse worker Taichi Konishi cools down by stepping into what's effectively a human refrigerator: "It feels really good. I only went in for about two minutes, but even that was enough for all my sweat to dry up."

Cara Legg reports for Al Jazeera.

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