Fuji crater on the Shizuoka Prefecture side and later confirmed dead. Also, a man lost consciousness on the Yamanashi Prefecture side's trail and died. Interest in climbing Mt. Fuji is soaring.

Mount Fuji is one of the iconic symbols of Japan ... the central government and the prefectural governments of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures, whose border the mountain straddles, and ...

YAMANAKAKO, Yamanashi Prefecture ... from Suruga in what is now Shizuoka Prefecture in reference to the Enryaku Eruption, stating that “the top of Mount Fuji burned itself … the light from ...

They include Sagamihara city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Shizuoka city and Otsuki in Yamanashi Prefecture. The first hazard map was based on a study of Mount Fuji's eruptions over 32 million years.