The greater Tokyo metropolitan area would effectively cease to function within hours of a full-scale eruption of Mount Fuji, according to the first government simulation of such an event in the ...

Mount Fuji is many things to Japan – including ... both from the University of Tokyo. They begin their search with a land survey. Using ground-penetrating radar, they locate what could be ...

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

There is an old Japanese saying that to climb Fuji once is wise, to climb it twice is to proclaim oneself a fool.” ...

The climbing season this year on Mount Fuji, which straddles the prefectures of Yamanashi and Shizuoka about 136 km (85 miles) from Tokyo, runs until September 10, after which the weather gets too ...

It’s Friday night and I’m sat in the corner of a dive bar in Hiroshima sipping a local plum wine and cheering on a group of three Japanese businessmen, dressed in full suit-and-briefcase ...

Tokyo continued to be a magnet for people in 2024, with a net influx of around 80,000 nearing the pre-pandemic 2019 level and ...

Step into the masterful world of Japan’s most celebrated woodblock print artist this spring at ‘Hokusai: Another Story’, held ...

JAPAN’S financial regulator urged the country’s regional banks to pay closer attention to the risks of investing in so-called repackaged government bonds, which are gaining popularity, people familiar ...

And while its capital, Tokyo, is a must-visit for first timers ... For centuries, Japanese artists and poets have been inspired by Mount Fuji's almost perfectly round form. The Fuji Five Lakes ...