a chief researcher of geochemistry at the Mount Fuji Research Institute. “We will be clarifying what kind of eruptions happened each time throughout history, with the goal of contributing to the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

This new entity is tasked with studying the probability of eruptions ... up in 1911 on Mount Asamayama, which straddles Gunma and Nagano prefectures. The Sekotsuji district of Fuji in Shizuoka ...

As for the true history lovers out there ... the pagoda was once covered in lava from the legendary volcanic eruption of Mount Fuji in 807. So not only will you be able to capture Fuji from ...