rising CO2 emissions, and reckless hikers-is the biggest problem facing Mount Fuji," said Masatake Izumi, a government ...

a government official in Yamanashi Prefecture, said to CNN last year. “Fuji-san is screaming out in pain.” Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.

Nov. 16, 2024, 12:00 a.m. A symbol of Japan, the mountain called “Fuji-san” used to be a place of pilgrimage. The mountain with its snowy top and near symmetrical slopes have been the subject ...

like Sasaki-san and Lisa-san. Many foreigners wrongly assume that the Japanese revere Mount Fuji so much that they put san after the mountain’s name, calling it "Fuji-san." A little knowledge is ...