FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Yamanashi Prefecture--Town officials here made the “ agonizing decision” to erect a massive barrier to block views of Mount Fuji after getting fed up with badly behaved ...

Littering and other bad tourist behaviors have become a problem in the town. For about a year and a half, foreign tourists flocked to take pictures of Mount Fuji that appears sitting on the roof ...

Tranquil and blanketed in pristine white snow, the Japanese city of Otaru serves as the backdrop of a popular 1995 romance ...

Tourist spots near Japan's Mount Fuji are crowded with visitors from China and elsewhere ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays ...

Mount Fuji is many things to Japan – including ... Subashiri Village was located in the present-day Subashiri district of Oyama Town, Shizuoka Prefecture. In June last year, a project kicked ...

Toyota Motor plans to move in the first 100 residents of a futuristic city at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan by as soon as this fall. The initial residents of Woven City will be composed mostly ...

A barrier erected to block a popular view of Mount Fuji in Japan has been taken down – for now – after it succeeded in ...

Toyota's "Woven City," a $10 billion smart city at the base of Mount Fuji, is beginning to take shape. The Japanese automaker announced the "city of the future" in 2021, with the 175-acre site set ...

Tourists taking pictures of Mount Fuji from opposite a convenience store in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi prefecture on May 20, 2024. [AFP] A Japanese town mounted a large mesh barrier at ...

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Employee residents are ‘Weavers’ and corporations are ‘Inventors’ in the new village near Mount Fuji.

The company said the 175-acre site at the base of Mount Fuji would be a testing ground for robotics and self-driving tech. Chairman Akio Toyoda said the city could include "pet robots" for older ...