Several centimeters of ash would clog the filters at power plants. Visibility would diminish to zero. An eruption on the scale of Mount Fuji's last eruption could go on for two weeks, the panel said.

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

Every year at the Fuji Shibazakura Festival, a beautiful carpet of bright pink flowers rolls out beneath Japan’s tallest and ...

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Veitch was one of the first plant collectors to visit Japan ... to join the first British ascent of Mount Fuji. The Directors' Correspondence collection contains several letters from Rutherford Alcock ...