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cm0002 to World News@quokk.au · 4 months ago

Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer

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Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer

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cm0002 to World News@quokk.au · 4 months ago
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The term - kokushobi - translates to "cruelly hot", "brutally hot" or "severely hot", and comes after Japan's hottest summer on record.
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    Missed opportunity to name it after automanufacturers.

    Especially given Toyota’s lobbying against fuel efficiency standards.

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      We can call it Toyotathon days or happy Honda days!

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        🎶 Olé, olé! Olé, olé! Toyota’s hot hot hot! 🎶

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    deleted by creator

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    Name it the new normal. Because it’s gonna be.

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    Surely BBC has nothing more important to report on if it’s doing this. Right?

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      News isn’t a zero sum game. Like, I don’t think the White House correspondent or the middle east desk was working on this particular story.

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        True, but Japan coining a term like “it was a really hot day” is not really newsworthy is it?

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          Not especially, no. But it is a good way to start talking about climate change, which is mainly what the article is actually about.

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    Down here in Florida, we just call it “a scorcher”. 🥵

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    Here in Brisbane, that’s just January. Further north, it’s even more usual.

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    Paywalled

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    Hotty McHot Day ?

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