Mount Fuji rises on the border of the Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures in central Honshu, Japan, near the Pacific Coast. Identified as a conical stratovolcano, it is the highest peak in Japan at 3,776 meters above sea level. Mount Fuji has a complex...

Mount Fuji (富士山, Fuji-san?, IPA: [ɸɯʥisaɴ]) listen (help·info), is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776 m (12,388 ft). A dormant volcano that last erupted in 1707-08, it straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and Yamanashi...

Paraplegic climbs Mount Fuji He hopes his efforts will inspire other people Associated Press Friday, September 5, 2003 Atop Mount Fuji, Japan -- Having conquered Japan's highest peak, American paraplegic mountain climber Keegan Reilly said Thursday that he already is...

OF ALL the images associated with Japan, none is more famous than the pristine cone of Mount Fujiyama, the world's most beautiful mountain. On a clear evening, you can see it from Tokyo, gracefully silhouetted against the setting sun, and memorialised in countless photographs,...

If you look up from the forests at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, the volcano's graceful slopes rise into the distance and peak in a nearly symmetrical, snowcapped cone.If you look down in the forests, however, you see something much less elegant: trash. Lots...

Fireworks showered over Sydney's iconic Harbor Bridge as a million onlookers cheered the New Year. Crowds scaled Japan's Mount Fuji for a view of the first 2007 dawn, but the Thai capital canceled its major celebration and sent thousands of people home after a series...