While past eruptions led to ash falling ... its estimates of what would unfold should Mount Fuji erupt on a scale of the Hoei eruption in 1707, the last time the sacred peak blew its top.

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 ...

Last week, the Japanese government revised its volcanic hazard map for Mount Fuji for the first time in 17 years. This comes as new data shows that lava flows from a major eruption could spread as ...

Japan's iconic Mount Fuji has been silent for over 300 years since the Hoei Eruption of 1707. Currently, there are no signs of an eruption. Historical records indicate, however, that Mount Fuji ...

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, the tallest peak in Japan with a height of 3,776 meters (12,389 feet), is an active stratovolcano that last ...

A "megaquake" hitting Japan in the next 30 years could trigger 100-foot tsunamis and kill hundreds of thousands of people.

It has been dormant since its last eruption in 1707, it is still considered an active volcano by geologists. A symbol of Japan, Mt. Fuji, or "Fujisan," was once a site of pilgrimage. Its snow ...

It appears that these magma bodies exist beneath volcanoes over their whole lifetime, not just during an active state.' ...