Climbers will be urged to leave Mount Fuji immediately when scientists detect signs of a volcanic eruption under a new evacuation plan published on March 29. Residents will be asked to evacuate on ...

While past eruptions led to ash falling ... with only between 0.04 and 0.20 cm of volcanic ash. And because many jets fly in the vicinity over Mount Fuji, there would also be a severe restriction ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency started its meetings to establish ashfall alerts and forecasts in preparation for a ...

Last week, the Japanese government revised its volcanic hazard map for Mount Fuji for the first time in 17 years. This comes as new data shows that lava flows from a major eruption could spread as ...

Mount Fuji is many things to Japan – including, it's sometimes forgotten, the nation's largest active volcano. The last eruption was more than three centuries ago, but with every passing year ...

Mount Fuji’s last eruption, which happened on this day in ... Over the next 49 days, hot magma from deep within the volcano mixed with cooler magma, and stress within the volcano built until ...