Fewer climbers tackled Mount Fuji during this year's hiking season, preliminary figures show, after Japanese authorities introduced an entry fee and a daily cap on numbers to fight overtourism. Online ...

Locals make up the vast majority of Japan's mountain rescues, yet internet anger is largely reserved for ill-equipped ...

TOKYO — Kokichi Akuzawa almost gave up during his trek to became the oldest person to summit Mount Fuji at age 102, an achievement recognized by Guinness World Records after he reached the top in ...

Few mountains anywhere in the world enjoy the name recognition of Japan's cone-shaped, dormant volcano. A handout image provided by the Yamanashi prefecture administration shows Japan's iconic Mt.

Park rangers on Japan's sacred Mount Fuji officially started this year's climbing season about 90 minutes before sunrise on ...

Snow has finally fallen on Mount Fuji, images showed Wednesday, after warm weather led to the Japanese mountain's longest-ever stint with bare slopes. The volcano's famous snowcap begins forming on ...

The climb doesn’t reveal its difficulty all at once. It starts slowly, before sunrise, where the trail winds through thick forest and long stretches of volcanic rock. A few hours in, the temperature ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck eastern Yamanashi, near Mt. Fuji in Japan, on Friday, June 26, at 10:28 p.m. local time.

ATOP MOUNT FUJI, Japan — Search for “Top of Mount Fuji” on Instagram, and you will discover thousands of posts documenting the hikers who have made it here to the summit of Japan’s best-known volcano.