At least seven people have died due to heat-related causes in Japan since Friday, including an infant who was left unattended in a parked car for hours, local officials and police said Saturday, as a heat wave, with temperatures climbing as high as 38 C, gripped wide areas of the country.In the central Japan city of Toyama, 11-month-old Kokomi Nobata was pronounced dead at a local hospital on Friday after her mother left her strapped in a child seat in the back of her vehicle for about four hours.Police arrested the 25-year-old mother Suzu Nobata who told them she had used a proxy driving s…READ FULL ARTICLE
