Interest in climbing Mt. Fuji is soaring. But experts say only highly skilled and well-prepared hikers should attempt to scale Japan's iconic peak off-season. The four trails leading to the summit ...

Geoffrey Kula, one overseas climber waiting to scale Mount Fuji on opening day, took the restrictions in stride. "This is not Disneyland," said Kula, a visitor from Boston. "Having some sort of ...

Climbers will be urged to leave Mount Fuji immediately when scientists detect ... the mountain even when the agency’s one-to-five scale volcanic alert system indicates the lowest Level 1.

A government panel believes an eruption on Mount Fuji is less about "if," and a lot more about "when." If it were on a similar scale to the last one, the damage and disruption could be severe.