On Everyone’s Lips: Candidates Announced for the Top Words of 2018

A JMA official announces that Kumagaya, Saitama, has marked the highest temperature ever recorded in Japan, 41.1ºC, on July 23, 2018. (© Jiji)

Ōtani blasts his second home run in as many at-bats against the Cleveland Indians on August 3, 2018. (© Jiji)