While the overall number of hiking and mountain-climbing incidents in Japan fell in 2024, there were notable rises among climbers of Mount Fuji and Mount Takao, which are popular with tourists.

Japan has introduced sweeping new measures for Mount Fuji ’s 2025 climbing season, including a uniform entrance fee of ¥4,000 (around £20) for all four of its main trails.

The Mount Fuji-shaped anemone, Discoactis tritentaculata, was found along Japan’s coast, revealing a rare new genus, species, and family of sea anemone.

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A man had to be rescued from Mount Fuji not once but twice and the second time was all over a lost phone. Officials only identified the man as a 27-year-old Chinese student who lived in Japan, The ...

A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan's Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later, authorities said Monday.

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

A climber was rescued twice in one week from Japan’s Mount Fuji after he went back to search for his lost phone, police said Monday.

A climber airlifted from near the peak of Japan's Mount Fuji last week was rescued again just four days later after returning to retrieve his cell phone.