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Mount Fuji on Honshu Island, Japan

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Signature on the horizon. Mount Fuji on Honshu Island, Japan

Mount Fuji, Japan's highest mountain, rises to 12,389 feet on Honshu Island, about 60 miles southwest of Tokyo. Its near-perfect cone is a volcano—dormant since its last eruption in December 1707 yet still classed as active. That last major event is known as the Hōei eruption. It blasted ash and other tephra across eastern Japan, reaching Edo (today's Tokyo). Beyond geology, Fu…

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