The sheltered, gently sloping foothills around Mount Fuji provide the perfect ... and rice terraces into a landscape more reminiscent of Tuscany than Japan. Vines carpet the slopes, mostly growing ...

Many tourists who arrive in Japan put climbing Mount Fuji high ... Climbers rest and drink water almost every 30 minutes. The rocky landscape at Mt. Fuji's 7th station makes it one of toughest ...

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 ...

Mount Fuji, which straddles ... came on the condition that Japan reduce overcrowding, environmental harm from visitors, and fix the artificial landscape, such as the large parking lots constructed ...

Researchers in Japan have confirmed microplastics are present ... In a study published in Environmental Chemistry Letters, scientists climbed Mount Fuji and Mount Oyama to collect water from ...

FUJI-YOSHIDA, Yamanashi Prefecture--Situated at the foot of majestic Mount Fuji, this popular city is being flooded with a growing number of non-Japanese tourists. The landscape has recently drawn ...

It’s a collection that explores Katsushika Hokusai’s work—the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. As the name hints, this is a series of landscape views exhibited on Japanese woodblock prints.

Toyota Motor plans to move in the first 100 residents of a futuristic city at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan by as soon as this fall. The initial residents of Woven City will be composed mostly ...