Japan this week released a report detailing the countermeasures to be taken should Mt. Fuji erupt and spew vast quantities of ash across the east of the country.

This estimate is about 10 times the amount of debris generated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated ... The economic loss from a Mount Fuji eruption is estimated to be up to 2.5 trillion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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