日照

Poor sunlight: central Tokyo's daily sunshine stayed under 3 hours for 17 straight days, the worst such streak in 31 years — a dry spell that last caused crop damage from Kanto to Hokkaido back in 1988:

東京の都心では、先月27日から13日までの17日連続で、１日の日照時間が３時間未満となりました。

The same word comes up again later — see the August 2017 entry, about a cloudy, sunshine-starved stretch across eastern and northern Japan.