Kokichi Akuzawa is an experienced climber who trained for his journey up the mountain by walking for one hour every morning ...

It is the season’s first fatality to occur on the Yamanashi Prefecture side of the mountain. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A man had to be rescued from Mount Fuji not once but twice and the second time was all over a lost phone. Officials only identified the man as a 27-year-old Chinese student who lived in Japan, The ...

A man in his 20s was airlifted from Japan's Mount Fuji then rescued again from its steep slopes just days later because he returned to find his phone, according to media reports.

FILE - Mount Fuji is viewed, Jan. 29, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, file) TOKYO (AP) — A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned ...

A man had to be rescued from Mount Fuji not once but twice and the second time was all over a lost phone. Officials only identified the man as a 27-year-old Chinese student who lived in Japan, The ...

A man in his 20s was airlifted from Japan’s Mount Fuji then rescued again from its steep slopes just days later because he returned to find his phone, according to media reports.

A man had to be rescued from Mount Fuji not once but twice and the second time was all over a lost phone. Officials only identified the man as a 27-year-old Chinese student who lived in Japan, The ...