In the s, an unidentified mysterious animal UMA later named "Mossie" was sighted in Yamanashi Prefecture's Lake Motosu, and it caused a huge stir at the time. Mossie is said to be 30 meters about 98 feet in length, with a few humps on its back and a crocodile-like rugged body. Like Nessie, however, the real identity of this UMA remains enshrouded in mystery down to this day. Nevertheless, there are many theories. One of the most well-accepted one is that it was probably an enormous sturgeon that was released into Lake Motosu during the time of its alleged sighting.
Sturgeons don't usually grow to the size of the reported UMA, but the conjecture is that being released into Lake Motosu gave it a unique growth environment, allowing it to reach the size purported in the claims.
Skiing is a representative sport of the winter season , and many today still flock to ski resorts when winter rolls around to have a bit of fun in the snow. Bet you didn't know that Mt. Fuji was actually the site of the very first bout of ski activity in Japan! Fuji, it marked the start of the sport in Japan.
There's still a plaque on the 5th stage of Mt. Fuji commemorating this event down to this day! Fuji is a popular place that many mountaineers try to tackle during the summer climbing season , giving the impression that it's completely safe and harmless. But, wait! Did you know that Mt. Fuji is actually still considered an active volcano? In fact, while it looks like a single mountain , Mount Fuji is made up of three successive volcanoes.
At the base of Mount Fuji the Komitake volcano, the first eruptions of which may have occurred some , years ago. Around , years ago, the Ko-Fuji Older Fuji Volcano was superimposed on it, and on top of this, the Shin-Fuji Younger Fuji Volcano formed around 10, years ago, forming the mountain we know today.
Because the last time Mt. Fuji erupted was more than years ago, for a while it was classified as a dormant volcano. Sometime around the s, however, the Meteorological Office changed the definition of an active volcano to all volcanoes that have ever been recorded to erupt before. Ever since then, Mt. Fuji has been classified as an active volcano.
In , the Coordinating Committee for Prediction of Volcano Eruptions redefined an active volcano as a volcano that has erupted before within the last 10, years and is still showing signs of fumarolic activity. Fuji continues to be classified as an active volcano under this new definition as well.
Nowadays, Mt. Fuji is an enjoyable mountain climbing site for both men and women, but did you know that women were prohibited from this activity until ? Specifically for Mt. Fuji, women were only allowed up to the 2nd stage. Back then, pilgrims would journey up Mt. Fuji for seclusion training, and having women around apparently interfered with the training, hence the prohibition.
Therefore, when Tatsu Takayama, a woman who really wanted to climb Mt. Fuji made her climb, she had to clip her hair short and dress up as a man to do so - a show of her steely determination.
In , Tatsu and five other men reached the summit without incident, and that's why she's said to be the first woman to climb Mt. After this, Tatsu became an advocate for gender equality and worked towards lifting the prohibition on women climbing Mt.
Regular visitors to Mt. Sir Alcock was the first British ambassador in Japan. He reached Mt. Fuji's summit in together with his pet dog and guards and is said to be the first non-Japanese to climb Mt.
Fuji to the top. This experience was recorded in one of the books he later wrote, The Capital of the Tycoon. The first non-Japanese woman to reach Mt. Fuji's peak was Lady Fanny Parkes in the year Sushiiwa Naritakukodaiichitaminaruten.
Saboten Naritakukodaiichitaminaruten. Ganso Zushi Naritakukodainitaminaruten. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. Lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet.
Caption by William L. View this area in EO Explorer. The snow-covered southeastern flank of Mount Fuji Volcano appears in this astronaut photograph from April 8, Image of the Day Land. Image of the Day Atmosphere Land Volcanoes. EO Explorer. Fuji Nature. Fuji Japanese Site Home Mt. Wonderland with unique topographical and geological features Formation of Mt. Fuji Mt. Fuji is a basaltic stratovolcano born from the base of Mt. Komitake about , years ago.
Its current beautiful cone shape was formed over two generations of volcanic activity turning the old Mt. Fuji into the current Mt. Recent research also suggests there may have been a volcanic predecessor to Mt. Komitake also. In , during the Edo period, an explosive eruption created the Hoei crater and volcanic ash formed a vast volcanic plane to the eastern side of the mountain.
There have been no further eruptions since. Location and Shape As a typical stratovolcano, Mt. Fuji has gradual slopes and a wide skirt spreading in all directions.
The skyline rapidly fills with Mt. Fuji as one approaches the summit accentuating the beauty of everything from the vast skirting regions to the summit area.
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