a popular looping roller coaster at an amusement park near Mount Fuji permanently closed on March 13. Transport ministry officials launched an investigation into the Do-Dodonpa roller coaster at ...

FUJIYOSHIDA, Yamanashi Prefecture--Park rangers on Japan's sacred Mount Fuji officially started this ... Yamanashi governor Kotaro Nagasaki said last month. Japan should focus on attracting ...

Japan has scrapped plans to build a light railway part-way up Mount Fuji and is instead considering ... Yamanashi governor Kotaro Nagasaki told a press conference, as he unveiled the project.

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace has died. He ...