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7 Best spots to view Mount Fuji

  • March 28, 2018
  • Kiyoshi Matsumoto
As featured in “the 36 views of Mount Fuji” by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist, Hokusai (1760 – 1849), Mount Fuji can be seen from countless locations. However, more often than…
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa
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Mount Fuji – mountain of inspiration

  • March 20, 2018
  • Kiyoshi Matsumoto
Arguably one of Japan’s greatest artists, Katsushika Hokusai (1760 – 1849) was an ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known as…
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Lord of the Ring of Fire

  • March 14, 2018
  • Kiyoshi Matsumoto
  Mount Fuji has been formed by a series of volcanic eruptions that occurred over approximately the last 100,000 years, depositing layers of basalt and andesite rock. At 3,776 metres,…
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[[File:Mount Fuji from space (shuttle mission).jpg|thumb|View from space from the Space Shuttle Columbia mission in 2003]]
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The World Revolves Around Mount Fuji

  • March 7, 2018
  • Kiyoshi Matsumoto
Seen as the epicentre of the World for the Japanese, Mount Fuji or Fuji-san is a sacred place and a source of great artistic inspiration. Rising in the centre of…
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Japan’s New Open Era

  • February 28, 2018
  • Kiyoshi Matsumoto
Isolated and closed to the rest of the world, Japan has fascinated the avid explore for centuries. With the “Meiji Ishin” (Meiji Restoration) of 1868 Japan decided to slowly open…
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