Japan Times: The severe heat wave continued Tuesday to engulf wide areas of Japan, with temperatures in one western city reaching 40 degrees for the fourth day in a row, the Meteorological Agency said. The city of Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, which on Monday logged the countrys highest temperature ever at 41.0, continued to swelter with a high of 40.0. The agency said Shimanto was the first observation point to reach 40 degrees four days in a row since it started monitoring such statistics in 1875. The city...