The greater Tokyo metropolitan area would effectively cease to function within hours of a full-scale eruption of Mount Fuji, according to the first government simulation of such an event in the ...

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 ...

The volcano’s first snow of the season fell in early November 2024—the latest in a 130-year record—only to apparently vanish ...

Mount Fuji, a World Heritage Site, has not erupted in more than 300 years. The last recorded eruption occurred on Dec. 16, 1707.

Each year, the majestic views of Mount Fuji's snow-capped peak draw hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the world. But many visitors will be in for a disappointment this year as Japan's ...

Record summer heat in Japan is believed to be behind the reason why Mt. Fuji's peak remained snowless for approximately a ...

The stunning mountain featured as Mt Fuji in The Last Samurai and Mount Doom in a panoramic shotCredit ... deformed as a ...

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.

Mount Fuji, a 12,000-foot peak located on the Japanese island of Honshu, is still lacking any measurable snow, extending a record for no snow in October, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Japan's Mount Fuji has seen its first snowfall after going through the longest period without snow since records began 130 years ago. Snow fell on Japan's highest peak about a month later than ...