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Japan's Mount Fuji Has Now Remained Snowless for the Longest Time in Its 130-Year Record
In 1831, the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai immortalized a snow-covered Mount Fuji in the background of his famous ... a ...
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Lisa’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Japan/ Mount Fuji: Privately owned, publicly sacred peak that a ‘fool’ climbs twice
recognizing it as a symbol of Japan. So, the mountain is owned by the central government, right? Not really. It turns out Mount Fuji, from the eighth station upward, is privately owned.