Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to Japan to take in the majestic views of Mount Fuji's snow-capped peak. But visitors were in for a surprise this year, as Japan's highest peak ...

The season’s first snowcap was observed on Mount Fuji ... than last year, the Kofu Local Meteorological Office said. The weather at the foot of the mountain on Oct. 4 was rainy but snow was ...

Fuji last erupted. Nearly 30 billion cubic feet of ash spewed into the air, choking residents and causing famine in the aftermath as farmlands were destroyed. Today, the volcano sits still against the ...

KOFU--Mount Fuji is ushering ... four days later than last year and two days earlier than in an average year, the office said. A staff member of the office observed snow at the summit of the ...

Japan is experiencing an unprecedentedly warm fall. Weather officials say most of the snow on the summit of Mount Fuji has now melted ... It planned to open its ski slope last Friday but has ...

Fuji is a few hundred years overdue for an eruption. It isn't, It last erupted in 1707. Mt. Fuji's eruptions do not follow a regular ... Fuji blows, evacuation plans will likely fall apart rather ...

A Japanese government panel compiled on Friday measures to be taken in the event of ash falling from a large-scale eruption of Mount Fuji, classifying them into four stages based on ... residents will ...

Even during the climbing season, temperatures on the mountain remain low with snow ... up Mt. Fuji to cap the number of climbers. Otani Kazuo, an official of the Yamanashi Prefecture Mount Fuji ...

By 2002, the slope in Nippori, a district in the Arakawa ward, was the last ... view of Fuji from the observation deck on the Bunkyo Civic Center. Gilles Mingasson Snow-covered Mount Fuji peaks ...

The ash would primarily fall east of Mount Fuji ... In 1707, after two years of earthquakes, Mount Fuji last erupted. Edo, which is now Tokyo, was covered in thick ash from the 16-day eruption.