I n 1831, the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai immortalized a snow-covered Mount Fuji in the background of his famous ...

“We should not be transmitting a negative image by blocking (the view with the sheet),” he said. “I want foreign tourists to take pretty pictures of Mount Fuji.” But not all the problems ...

Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest peak, has seen its first snowfall after one of the longest periods without snow since records began 130 years ago. The European Commission’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 ...

Residents had complained about tourists blocking the sidewalk, leaving litter and stepping onto the road itself and disrupting traffic to get better snaps of Mount Fuji, which rises majestically ...

But those living near Mount Fuji say the influx has become unsustainable, and municipal authorities are taking measures to address it. When an image of Mount Fuji appearing to sit on top of a ...