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Mt. Fuji reopens for climbers

People carry a portable "mikoshi" shrine to pray for the safety of climbers at Fujisan Komitake shrine located at the fifth station of Mt. Fuji in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2023. The summer climbing season for the highest mountain in Japan officially began the same day, with the opening of a route on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of the 3,776-meter volcano.

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Mt. Fuji reopens for climbers

People carry a portable "mikoshi" shrine to pray for the safety of climbers at Fujisan Komitake shrine located at the fifth station of Mt. Fuji in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2023. The summer climbing season for the highest mountain in Japan officially began the same day, with the opening of a route on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of the 3,776-meter volcano.

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Mt. Fuji reopening ceremony

A ceremony praying for the safety of climbers is held at a shrine located at the fifth station of Mt. Fuji in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2023. The summer climbing season for the highest mountain in Japan officially begins the same day, with the opening of a route on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of the 3,776-meter volcano.

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Mt. Fuji climbers

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a climbing trail between the sixth and seventh stations of Mt. Fuji that is crowded with climbers on July 6, 2013.

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Mt. Fuji climbers

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a climbing trail between the sixth and seventh stations of Mt. Fuji that is crowded with climbers on July 6, 2013.

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Fire festival near Mt. Fuji

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - About 3-meter-tall torches light up a Shinto shrine gate along a national highway in a 400-year-old fire festival near Mt. Fuji in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 26, 2010.

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Fire festival near Mt. Fuji

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - About 3-meter-tall torches are lit along a national highway in a 400-year-old fire festival in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 26, 2010. Mt. Fuji is seen in silhouette in the background.

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Fire festival near Mt. Fuji

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - About 3-meter-tall torches are lit along a national highway in a 400-year-old fire festival near Mt. Fuji in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 26, 2010.

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Outline of Mt. Fuji visible after sunset

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - The outline of Mt. Fuji can be seen immediately after sunset in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2009.

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Hail falls on Mt. Fuji

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - The top of Mt. Fuji turns unusually white on Aug. 12 as hail fell on the mountain.

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Cap cloud seen above Mt. Fuji

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - A cap cloud hovers above Mt. Fuji on Feb. 14. Weather officials said cap clouds form when in winter a warm, humid air moves up the mountain and then cools above it.

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Mt. Fuji education facility opens to public

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - The city of Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, held a ceremony on April 24 to mark the opening of the ''Mt. Fuji Radar Dome Pavilion'' educational facility (top) at the foot of Japan's highest peak.

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'Diamond Fuji' observed in Yamanashi

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - The sun is seen setting behind Mt. Fuji over Lake Yamanaka in Yamanashi Prefecture on Feb. 24 in an effect known as ''Diamond Fuji.''

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New Year's Day sunrise at Mt. Fuji

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - The sun rises on the slope of Mt. Fuji as seen from the shore of Lake Motosu on the New Year's Day on Jan. 1.

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Cap cloud hangs over Mt. Fuji

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - A cap cloud is seen hanging over the summit of Mt. Fuji on Feb. 26. The cap cloud over Mt. Fuji can only be seen under limited weather conditions.

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Children's story penned by Mishima on display at museum

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - The manuscript of a recently discovered children's story by the late Japanese writer Yukio Mishima was put on display at the Mishima Yukio Literary Museum in the village of Yamanakako in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, on Feb. 10. The story, penned on 16 sheets of paper, is about a boy who is taken to see a bear in Osaka. When he arrives, he finds the bear has been sold to a hot-spring inn so he visits the inn because he is concerned the bear might have been killed for its fur.

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2 types of mammoth cap cloud spotted bearing on Mt. Fuji

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - Two types of mammoth cap cloud are spotted bearing on Mt. Fuji on Feb. 2 in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, one of them with a whirlpool pattern at its brim. The crest of one cloud sits on the summit of Mt. Fuji while the other encircles the mountain like a broad-brimmed hat.

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Zhu tours robot assembly plant in Japan

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - Visiting Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji (R front), on a six-day official tour of Japan through Oct. 17, inspects a cutting-edge industrial robot assembly line at a plant run by FANUC Ltd. in the village of Oshino, Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, on Oct. 15. During his inspection, the Chinese leader told executives with FANUC, a world leader in industrial robotics, ''Innovations in high-technology fields in Japan are progressing surprisingly.''