La Vista Fujikawaguchiko blends modern comfort with front row views of Mount Fuji, just a short walk from Lake Kawaguchi. The spacious rooms, designed with Spanish-colonial / European countryside ...

A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later, ...

Mount Fuji is seen from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter flying over Shizuoka Prefecture. (Mainichi) KOFU (Kyodo) -- People planning to visit Mt. Fuji will be required to wear appropriate climbing ...

Mount Fuji is Japan’s tallest mountain, and many would also say its most beautiful. But a less desirable superlative it’s also picked up in recent years is being Japan’s most notoriously crowded ...

People planning to visit Mount Fuji will be required to wear appropriate climbing gear, the local government hosting the mountain's most popular trail said, as it begins accepting reservations next ...

Mt Fuji’s climbing season (July to September) is edging ever closer. To gear up for the season, ticket prices to climb the mountain have been increased, and on Thursday April 24 Yamanashi ...

Kofu, Yamanashi Pref., April 17 (Jiji Press)--The Yamanashi prefectural government said Thursday that it will begin accepting online reservations for climbing Mount Fuji from the central Japan ...

BACK TO YOU. THANKS, QUANECIA. THIS MAN CHARGED WITH FOUR COUNTS OF CHILD SEX ABUSE IS OFFICIALLY FIRED BY THE PAPILLION-LA VISTA SCHOOL DISTRICT. JEFFREY FAUBLE WAS A SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST.

KOFU—There is still no sign of snow atop Mount Fuji here after two predicted observation days in October yielded nothing. If snow is observed on the mountaintop on Oct. 26, the next potential ...

MINAMI-ALPS, Yamanashi: Many people are coming to see a soon-to-open giant Costco in Minami-Alps city in Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture, as from nearby, the view makes it look like Mount Fuji is ...

FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Yamanashi Prefecture—A large black plastic sheet was installed in front of a Lawson convenience store here to block views of Mount Fuji and prevent ill-mannered tourists from ...