Temperature Hits Record High in Japan as Nation Withers The mercury reached nearly 106 degrees in Kumagaya, a city northwest of Tokyo, with no end in sight for a heat wave that is already two weeks old. Share: Facebook Twitter Google+ Stumble Digg Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to Facebook Related Posts:Hong Kong Protests: Site of Mob Attack Is Demonstrators’ Next StopU.S. Student Said to Confess to Killing Italian PolicemanNew North Korean Missile Comes With Angry Message to South Korea’s President‘Her Eyes Were Full of Fear.’ Turkey Repatriates Children of ISIS Followers.Is B.D.S. Anti-Semitic? A Closer Look at the Boycott Israel CampaignMeet the ‘Orchestra of the Street’ Bringing Classical Music to Rio’s Favelas