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Showing off their awkward moves in shirts, ties and brightly colored belly warmers, four men in their 50s and 60s have become Japan's latest TikTok sensation.

The group's mission? To promote their small countryside town, whose population is in decline, through dance routines to pop tunes that fans call "adorable."

TOKYO (AP) — More than 300 people died in July from weather-related disasters in one of Japan's deadliest months in recent years.

A grueling heat wave caused at least eight deaths across Japan since Saturday, and the dangerous conditions are not forecast to subside through the duration of the week.

More than 2,000 people were treated at hospitals across southern and central Japan from Saturday into Sunday, according to The Japan Times.

Half-tonne fighting bulls trampled and knocked over runners on a breakneck bull run in Spain's San Fermin festival on Tuesday, injuring three people, one of them seriously, officials said.