A challenge that has taken on a greater urgency than before the World Heritage listing is disaster prevention at Mount Fuji, an active volcano. The Sept. 27, 2014, eruption of Mount Ontake ...

A working committee under the government’s Central Disaster Management Council on March 31 released its estimates of what would unfold should Mount Fuji erupt on a scale of the Hoei eruption in ...

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

It appears that these magma bodies exist beneath volcanoes over their whole lifetime, not just during an active state.' ...

Mount Fuji, the tallest peak in Japan with a height of 3,776 meters (12,389 feet), is an active stratovolcano that last ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a part of the Arakura Sengen Shrine, founded in 705, the land surrounding the pagoda was once covered in lava from the legendary volcanic eruption of Mount Fuji in 807. So not only will you be ...