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.

"The atmosphere at the summit has definitely warmed considerably since 1970," said Bernstein, who has been researching the ...

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 ...

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 ...

But many related questions remain unanswered. Research into the history of Mount Fuji’s past eruptions has made progress in recent years, leading to the discovery of a new crater. The ...