Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak, opened to climbers on the Shizuoka Prefecture side on Thursday. Starting this season, new ...

The recurrence of such incidents on the peak has renewed calls in Japan for stiffer penalties and for errant hikers to pay ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

Local residents in Japan have been left fuming after a bridge, dubbed “Mount Fuji dream bridge”, has become a mecca for tourists wanting the perfect shot of Mount Fuji. The bridge in Fuji, Shizuoka ...