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Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows a weather station on the Kengamine summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows a weather station on the Kengamine summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 10, 2024, shows Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, seen from the Yamanashi prefectural side. The 3,776-meter mountain in central Japan straddles Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.

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Mt. Fuji gets season's 1st snowcap

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows Mt. Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, covered with a thin layer of snow on Oct. 16, 2014. The 3,776-meter mountain got its first snowcap of the season the same day, 16 days later than average but three days earlier than last year, the Kofu Local Meteorological Observatory said.

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Mt. Fuji gets season's 1st snowcap

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows Mt. Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, covered with a thin layer of snow on Oct. 16, 2014. Miho-no-matsubara, a seashore area lined with pine trees, is seen in the foreground. The 3,776-meter mountain got its first snowcap of the season the same day, 16 days later than average but three days earlier than last year, the Kofu Local Meteorological Observatory said.

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Mt. Fuji gets season's 1st snowcap

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows Mt. Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, covered with a thin layer of snow on Oct. 16, 2014. The 3,776-meter mountain got its first snowcap of the season the same day, 16 days later than average but three days earlier than last year, the Kofu Local Meteorological Observatory said.

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Mt. Fuji gets season's 1st snowcap

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows Mt. Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, covered with a thin layer of snow on Oct. 16, 2014. The 3,776-meter mountain got its first snowcap of the season the same day, 16 days later than average but three days earlier than last year, the Kofu Local Meteorological Observatory said.

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Mt. Fuji gets season's 1st snowcap

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows Mt. Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, covered with a thin layer of snow on Oct. 16, 2014. The 3,776-meter mountain got its first snowcap of the season the same day, 16 days later than average but three days earlier than last year, the Kofu Local Meteorological Observatory said.

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Mt. Fuji gets season's 1st snowcap

OSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from Tokyo's Izu Oshima Island shows Mt. Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, covered with a thin layer of snow on Oct. 16, 2014. The 3,776-meter mountain got its first snowcap of the season the same day, 16 days later than average but three days earlier than last year, the Kofu Local Meteorological Observatory said.

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Tokaido Shinkansen to mark 50th anniversary in October

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken in November 2013 shows a Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train running with Mt. Fuji on the background in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Mobile bridge for disaster

SHIZUOKA, Japan - The "Mobile Bridge," a transportable bridge that extends like a pair of lazy tongs and can be installed over a river as wide as 17 meters in about 10 minutes, is unveiled in an experiment in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture on Sept. 12, 2013. The bridge was developed by engineers from Hiroshima University and a group of businesses, conceived with the aim of providing a quick fix to restore transportation infrastructure in the event of a disaster.

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Mobile bridge for disaster

SHIZUOKA, Japan - The "Mobile Bridge," a transportable bridge that extends like a pair of lazy tongs and can be installed over a river as wide as 17 meters in about 10 minutes, is unveiled in an experiment in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture on Sept. 12, 2013. The bridge was developed by engineers from Hiroshima University and a group of businesses, conceived with the aim of providing a quick fix to restore transportation infrastructure in the event of a disaster.

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Mobile bridge for disaster

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Combination photos (from top to bottom) shows an experiment of the "Mobile Bridge," a transportable bridge that extends like a pair of lazy tongs and can be installed over a river as wide as 17 meters in about 10 minutes, unveiled in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture on Sept. 12, 2013. The bridge was developed by engineers from Hiroshima University and a group of businesses, conceived with the aim of providing a quick fix to restore transportation infrastructure in the event of a disaster.

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Summer meteor shower

FUJI, Japan - Photo taken at 1:46 a.m. on Aug. 13, 2013, shows a shooting star of Perseid Meteor Shower (movement is from bottom to top) as seen from Mt. Fuji in the city of Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Mt. Fuji opens for climbers

MT. FUJI, Japan - About 20 climbers celebrate a sunrise at the 3,776-meter summit of Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest peak, on July 1, 2010, as it was open to alpinists for the season.

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Unseasonable snow on Mt. Fuji

KOFU, Japan - Unseasonable snow atop the 3,776-meter Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest peak, can be seen from rice paddies in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on June 10, 2010.

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New Year's Day sunrise at Mt. Fuji

TOKYO, Japan - This photo taken from a Japan Airlines flight shows the sun rising over Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain southwest of Tokyo, on Jan. 1, 2010.

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Novelist Suzuki hoping scary story more than flush in the pan

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Novelist Koji Suzuki poses with a pile of toilet rolls that carry his new horror story in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, on May 23. Each roll has the full short story ''Drop'' printed on it numerous times.

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People climb Mt. Fuji

MT. Fuji, Japan - Hundreds of people climb Mt. Fuji through the night on June 30 in a bid to reach the top in time for ''goraiko'' (sunrise). The bright area seen in the back is the town of Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture.

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Princess Masako's grandmother dies at 88

TOKYO, Japan - Crown Princess Masako's maternal grandmother, Suzuko Egashira, seen in this file photo taken in November 1986, died Nov. 19 at a hospital in the city of Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, the Imperial Household Agency said. She was 88.

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Man arrested over explosion at parcel delivery firm

FUJI, Japan - Members of a bomb-disposal squad of the Ground Self-Defense Force collect shells from the house of Norihisa Kotani, a sheet-metal worker, on July 1 in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture. Earlier in the day, Kotani, 32, was arrested on suspicion of sending a package containing a grenade that exploded at a branch of major parcel delivery firm Yamato Transport Co. in Susono in the prefecture.

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(2)Man arrested over explosion at parcel delivery firm

FUJI, Japan - Investigators search for evidence July 1 at the house of a man suspected of sending a package containing a grenade that exploded the previous day at the Shinshizuoka branch of parcel delivery firm Yamato Transport Co. in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture. Artillery shells are seen at the foot of the investigators.

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Climbers head for Mt. Fuji with opening of peak's season

Mt. Fuji, Japan - More than 200 people, braving rain and strong winds, head for the summit of Mt. Fuji on June 30 to be the first to observe the sunrise from the 3,776-meter peak since the start of the new millennium. The climbers started their ascent from the fifth station ahead of the July 1 opening of this season's Mt. Fuji climbing. The photo was taken at the eighth station at 8:25 p.m.

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Headquarters of Ho-no-Hana religious group

FUJI, Japan - File photo shows the headquarters of the Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo religious group, located in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture. A district court ordered the group and its founder Hogen Fukunaga April 28 to pay 27 people 227.2 million yen in damages for swindling them of money in the name of ascetic practice fees.

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Mt. Fuji capped with snow

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in the morning of Oct. 21 shows Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, capped with 19 centimeters of snow at its summit only two days after the 3,776-meter peak saw its first snowfall of the coming winter Oct. 19.

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MSDF joins disaster prevention drills

FUJI, Japan - A landing ship of the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) lands at Gokanjima Island, Shizuoka Prefecture, to deliver rescue materials in annual disaster prevention drills carried out throughout Japan on Sept. 1, Disaster Prevention Day.