As Japan struggles to deal with the hottest early summer on report, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says the nation must quickly restart more of its nuclear power plants.
For the first time actually June temperatures broke through 40C last week – and Japan’s power stations are struggling to keep up.
But 11 years following the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe the push in order to restart Japan’s nuclear plants remains significantly unpopular.
At the Fukushima site they are preparing to release over a million tonnes of taken care of cooling water in the Pacific Ocean.
The BBC’s Tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes went back to the plant to meet local fishing neighborhoods who are ardently in opposition to the release of the drinking water.