Japan Is So Hot That They’ve Hired People to Rub Ice on the Train Tracks

Japan is currently experiencing a pretty major heat wave. Statistics from Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare found that heat stroke-related deaths went from an average of 67 per year before 1993, to “1,004 annually between 2010 and 2019 and 1,253 per year from 2020 to 2022.”

As a result, the country has had to implement several, often strange solutions to deal with the heat problem. For example, the country recently got so hot that several of its train tracks started to bend. So what did they do? Hire men to rub down the tracks with ice, of course!