A record heat wave in Northeast Asia has gripped South Korea, North Korea and Japan. Among the 38 people who died in connection with a magnitude 7.1 quake in Japan are a woman who developed heat stroke while taking shelter in a car. In Tokyo, three lions have died at a zoo. In South Korea, President Lee Jae Myung instructed officials to view the ongoing heat wave as “a national disaster” and two spectators fainted at a baseball stadium. In North Korea, a doctor advised people to eat cooling foods including dog meat and fish porridge to beat the heat.