More from Japan

Here are a couple of articles that point to Japan's predicament: reduced energy output as a result of Fukushima affecting industry and GDP.  Now Japan is in the grips of record high temperatures.

Japan imposes energy limits amid power crunch

USA Today

Japan began imposing energy restrictions on companies, shopping malls and other major electricity users Friday to cope with power shortages caused by the loss of a tsunami-hit nuclear power plant.

Big factories, office buildings, universities and department stores in the Tokyo area must use 15% less electricity than a year ago. Electricity is in short supply due to the shutdown of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant hit by the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Japan braces itself for hottest summer on record

the Telegraph

The country is on course to surpass the historic heatwave of last year when more than 54,000 people were admitted to hospitals.

Soaring temperatures are compounded by concerns over power shortages caused by the loss of power from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Temperatures reached 96.4 degrees (35.8 Celsius) in Tokyo on Wednesday and claimed four lives. In the city of Koshu, it reached 101.3F (38.5C).

In total, authorities say that eight people have died from heatstroke since the end of May.

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This report from al-Jazeera