snow-capped Mount Fuji in the background fulfilled the desires of skywatchers wanting the perfect setting for this year's spectacular Geminid meteor shower. Countless meteors were spotted ...

YAMANAKAKO, Yamanashi Prefecture--Solidified lava from eruptions of Mount Fuji in the distant past offers frightening clues of what awaits if the sacred mountain blows its top again. Researchers ...

Daichi Fujii, the curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, captured an incredible Geminid meteor streaking across the skies above Mt. Fuji. "The clouds are gradually clearing over both Mt.