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Climate change is having an
consequence on language – the
of new words. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has introduced a new
of vocabulary into the Japanese
. The neologism is the word "kokushobi," which literally means "
hot day" or "harshly hot day". The JMA will use it when describing or forecasting days when
are 40ºC or above. The JMA conducted an online
of weather-based
. The questionnaire was prompted by the
weather experienced in Japan in recent years. Website visitors selected their most preferred word. There were 478,000
. The word kokushobi garnered nearly 203,000 votes.
