Findings released in 2018 by Akita University and the University of Tokyo also drew considerable attention after layers of volcanic ash from an eruption of Mount Fuji around 2,500 years ago were ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency has proposed an ash fall warning to be issued in the event at least three centimeters of ...

The discovery may lead to a review of conventional studies on volcanic event intervals and scales, said scientists from Yamanashi Prefecture’s Mount Fuji Research Institute and the Atmosphere ...

The snow-capped peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji has finally formed after the most-delayed snowfall since records began. Its white tip is one of the most iconic sights in Japan, but the volcano’s ...

Japan's Mount Fuji, snowless for the longest since records ... At Lake Kawaguchi, a favourite viewing spot for the volcano, French visitor Hugo Koide told AFP it was "quite shocking to see at ...

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 ...

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

The drill, the first of its kind involving the prefectures of Kanagawa, Yamanashi and Shizuoka -- core members of the Mt. Fuji Volcano Disaster Management Conference -- was held on the assumption ...

The city, which is a modest bullet train ride away from Tokyo -- with a view of Mount Fuji on the way -- is famed ... view of the famous snow-capped volcano that had become a magnet for photo ...