A working committee under the government’s Central Disaster Management Council on March 31 released its estimates of what would unfold should Mount Fuji erupt on a scale of the Hoei eruption in ...

A challenge that has taken on a greater urgency than before the World Heritage listing is disaster prevention at Mount Fuji, an active volcano. The Sept. 27, 2014, eruption of Mount Ontake ...

Mount Fuji is many things to Japan – including, it's sometimes forgotten, the nation's largest active volcano. The last eruption was more than three centuries ago, but with every passing year ...

Join our explorers as they pursue the cinematic beauty of Japan. Kyle Card hikes the newly designated long trail around majestic Mt. Fuji and discovers its secrets.

Other famed peaks and mountain ranges, such as Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and the Andes mountains in South America are losing their snowpacks at extraordinary rates, she said. Mount Fuji, a World ...

Mount Fuji, the tallest peak in Japan with a height of 3,776 meters (12,389 feet), is an active stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707. Known as the Hei eruption, the volcano spewed a flurry of ...

The stunning mountain featured as Mt Fuji in The Last Samurai and Mount ... fossilised remains of trees that were destroyed in past eruptions. The trees are also covered in hanging mosses and ...

Mount Fuji, a 12,000-foot peak located on the Japanese ... The volcano has not erupted in more than 300 years. The last ...

As a result, the volcano was used as a double for the equally symmetrical Mount Fuji in Japan during the ... 16 significant deformations from past eruptions since it first formed around 135,000 ...