The first snowfall on Mount Fuji, a Unesco World Heritage site, could be seen from the south-western side of the mountain, according to the Shizuoka branch of the Japan Meteorological Agency.
While some hard-core mountaineers have climbed the highest mountain in each of Japan’s 47 prefectures, no one else has gone about it quite like this. Hiroaki Futagami, 51, decided to climb the ...