In Japan, over 30 people have died and 10,000 people hospitalized due to the heatwave in Japan.
Temperatures have risen to 40.7 c (105 degrees F) combined with humidity and already a child has died in an outdoor class.
Model Kinoshita Yukina is concerned for her two daughters due to the heatwave.
Kinoshita wrote, “The new about heat stroke. It’s summer and it’s hot, it’s extraordinarily hot”.
Kinoshita continued, “At various schools, there have been cases of heat stroke. As a parent, I wonder if it’s safe to send my child to school. When we were elementary school students, the maximum temperature was still 28-29 degrees Celsius and the pool in the morning would be cold. I would take a bottled water to school. I was totally disappointed to hear that bottled water is prohibited in schools, every day is a potential that children can get heat stroke. As a parent who sends their child, I’m worried. Especially as children are doing club activities, the heat from the hot weather is too hot and I want to take measures to prevent my children from getting heat stroke”.
Kinoshita had hashtags #waterbottleban #Do you want to kill? #Katsushika is it ok? #Staff rooms are cooler”
The Instagram post has received over 914,000 views and people chimed in at how in Japan, their experiences are different.
One posted, “Our elementary schools allow people too bring bottled water. Inside they give out sports drinks, two electric fans in each classroom, there are only three hot classrooms”.
Another posted, “At my son’s school, the closing ceremony in the gymnasium was too hot, so they held it in an air-conditioned room”.
Another wrote, “I am worried all the time as I’m a parent with a daughter who is an elementary school student. Especially when my daughter comes home with a red face each day”.
Kinoshita’s post has been picked up by many media outlets and with the news of deaths from the heatwave, how to protect children and elderly is going to be a big topic.