Even seasoned hikers find the off-season treacherous. Hut closures, removed signage, and the absence of medical stations make ...

Officials said the unnamed mountaineer was alone on the Fujinomiya trail on April 22. He had to be rescued again just four ...

On Saturday, he returned to the mountain’s Fujinomiya trail about 3,000 meters (nearly 10,000 feet) above sea level to look ...

A vacation to Japan can be anything you want it to be, and a journey to the birth place of wasabi comes with ice cream, hot ...

A student was rescued while climbing Mount Fuji and attempted to return days later to retrieve his phone – and had to be ...

The student, who found himself in the middle of nowhere, has not been named. The first time it happened was after he lost his ...

It's a fairly common experience to leave your phone in a regrettable location. It's somewhat less common for that location to ...

However, he soon received an invitation from the Consul General of Japan, Rutherford Alcock, to join the first British ascent of Mount Fuji. The Directors' Correspondence collection contains several ...

MINAMI-ALPS, Yamanashi: Many people are coming to see a soon-to-open giant Costco in Minami-Alps city in Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture, as from nearby, the view makes it look like Mount Fuji is ...

Nearly three dozen Marines got sprayed with a level-one contamination of oleoresin capsicum during a non-lethal weapons course at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, March 25, 2025.

LOWER MANHATTAN (WABC) -- Mount Sinai Beth Israel has officially closed its doors Wednesday morning, after 135 years, after an appeals court rejected a community group's bid to keep the hospital open.