A government-appointed panel, composed of volcanologists and disaster preparedness experts, has now issued a set of guidelines on how to handle such a crisis, particularly if the eruption leads to ...

The 3,776-meter-high mountain, Japan’s tallest peak ... World Heritage listing is disaster prevention at Mount Fuji, an active volcano. The Sept. 27, 2014, eruption of Mount Ontake, which ...

Japanese authorities have issued guidance on how the public should respond if the famous Mount Fuji volcano, near Tokyo, were to erupt. Experts recommend sheltering at home and maintaining a two ...

All residents in the zone from Mount Fuji to Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, just west of Tokyo, should evacuate in the ...

Japanese authorities have issued guidance on how the public should respond if the famous Mount Fuji volcano, near Tokyo, were to erupt.

As the symbol and pride of Japan, Mt Fuji has naturally inspired numerous attractions around its home in the ...

Davidson, an English professor at the City University of New York whose 1993 Japanese travelogue 36 Views of Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan revolved around the volcano. “I do not know a ...

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 ...

An almost perfectly conical volcano, Mount Fuji is a familiar symbol of Japan, located 70 mi/115 km southwest of Tokyo. It is 12,388 ft/3,774 m high and beautifully snow-capped in winter. Ascendi ...

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.