A government-appointed panel, composed of volcanologists and disaster preparedness experts, has now issued a set of guidelines on how to handle such a crisis, particularly if the eruption leads to ...

All residents in the zone from Mount Fuji to Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, just west of Tokyo, should evacuate in the ...

An eruption on the scale of Mount Fuji's last eruption could go on for two weeks ... Fuji remains an active volcano with immense power contained within. As in 1707, an earthquake off the coast of the ...

The study estimates that a major eruption of Mount Fuji could release up to 490 million cubic metres of ash – about 10 times more debris than the 2011 earthquake and tsunami produced.

The government said that the Japan Meteorological Agency had not raised the warning level even though earthquake levels were slightly elevated, because the warning level was based on additional data ...

The Japanese government has issued a contingency plan for a potential Mount Fuji eruption, to help the public prepare for the ...

Japan has released a report detailing countermeasures to be taken if Mount Fuji were to erupt and release ... While there were no signs of imminent volcanic activity, scientists said an eruption ...

Mount Fuji last erupted in 1707. In the worst-case scenario, a massive eruption of Japan's highest peak could spew 30 centimeters of ash (nearly 12 inches) or more over Tokyo, about 100 kilometers ...

In 1707, after two years of earthquakes, Mount Fuji last erupted. Edo, which is now Tokyo, was covered in thick ash from the 16-day eruption. Famine resulted from the destruction of farmland.