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Mount Fuji, the Glossary

is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of.^[1]

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Extreme points of Japan
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Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc
Mountains of Shizuoka Prefecture
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Sacred mountains of Japan
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VEI-5 volcanoes
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Ainu language

Ainu (アイヌ・イタㇰ), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu (北海道アイヌ語), is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

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Alexander (Sasha) Vladimirovich Vovin (Александр Владимирович Вовин; 27 January 1961 – 8 April 2022) was a Soviet-born Russian-American linguist and philologist, and director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, France.

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Amurian microplate

The Amurian microplate (or Amur microplate; also occasionally referred to as the China Plate, not to be confused with the South China Subplate) is a minor tectonic plate in the northern and eastern hemispheres.

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Andesite

Andesite is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition.

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Angle of repose

The angle of repose, or critical angle of repose, of a granular material is the steepest angle of descent or dip relative to the horizontal plane on which the material can be piled without slumping.

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Anime

is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.

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Aokigahara

Aokigahara, also known as the, is a forest on the northwestern flank of Mount Fuji on the island of Honshu in Japan, thriving on of hardened lava laid down by the last major eruption of Mount Fuji in 864 CE. Mount Fuji and Aokigahara are Tourist attractions in Yamanashi Prefecture.

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Asian black bear

The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), also known as the Indian black bear, Asiatic black bear, moon bear and white-chested bear, is a medium-sized bear species native to Asia that is largely adapted to an arboreal lifestyle.

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Atlasov Island

Atlasov Island, known in Russian as Ostrov Atlasova (Остров Атласова), or in Japanese as Araido (阿頼度島), is the northernmost island and volcano and also the highest volcano of the Kuril islands, part of the Sakhalin Oblast in Russia. Mount Fuji and Atlasov Island are active volcanoes.

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Ōwakudani

is a volcanic valley with active sulphur vents and hot springs in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji

is a 1955 Japanese jidaigeki and drama film directed by Tomu Uchida.

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek, previously known as BusinessWeek (and before that Business Week and The Business Week), is an American monthly business magazine published 12 times a year.

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BOAC Flight 911

BOAC Flight 911 (call sign "Speedbird 911") was a round-the-world flight operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) that crashed near Mount Fuji in Japan on 5 March 1966, with the loss of all 113 passengers and 11 crew members.

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Boeing 707

The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

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Boso Triple Junction

Boso Triple Junction (also known as Off-Boso Triple Junction) is a triple junction off the coast of Japan; it is one of two known examples of a trench-trench-trench triple junction on the Earth (the other being the Banda Sea Triple Junction). Mount Fuji and Boso Triple Junction are triple junctions.

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Chaos (cosmogony)

Chaos (Kháos) is the mythological void state preceding the creation of the universe (the cosmos) in ancient near eastern cosmology and early Greek cosmology.

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Chautauqua

Chautauqua is an adult education and social movement in the United States that peaked in popularity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Chiba (city)

is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

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Chibanian

The Chibanian, more widely known as Middle Pleistocene (its previous informal name), is an age in the international geologic timescale or a stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period.

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Cinder cone

A cinder cone (or scoria cone) is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent.

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Clear-air turbulence

In meteorology, clear-air turbulence (CAT) is the turbulent movement of air masses in the absence of any visual clues such as clouds, and is caused when bodies of air moving at widely different speeds meet.

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CNA (TV network)

CNA (stylised as cna; an initialism derived from the previous name, Channel NewsAsia) is a Singaporean multinational news channel owned by Mediacorp, the country's state-owned media conglomerate.

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Cultural icon

A cultural icon is a person or an artifact that is identified by members of a culture as representative of that culture.

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Deutsche Welle

("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.

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Eastern Old Japanese

Eastern Old Japanese (abbreviated as.) is a group of heterogenous varieties of Old Japanese, historically spoken in the east of Japan, in the area traditionally called Togoku or Azuma.

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Edo

Edo (江戸||"bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.

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Edo period

The, also known as the, is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.

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En no Gyōja

(b. 634, in Katsuragi (modern Nara Prefecture); d. c. 700–707) was a Japanese ascetic and mystic, traditionally held to be the founder of Shugendō, the path of ascetic training practiced by the gyōja or yamabushi.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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Felice Beato

Felice Beato (c. 1832 – 29 January 1909), also known as Felix Beato, was an Italian–British photographer.

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Flight Safety Foundation

The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit, international organization concerning research, education, advocacy, and communications in the field of aviation safety.

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Folk etymology

Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.

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Foothills or piedmont are geographically defined as gradual increases in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area.

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Frederick Starr

Frederick Starr (September 2, 1858 – August 14, 1933) was an American academic, anthropologist, and "populist educator"Parezo, Nancy J. and Don D. Fowler.

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Fuji Five Lakes

is the name of the area located at the base of Mount Fuji in the Yamanashi Prefecture of Japan.

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Fuji, Shizuoka

is a city in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park

is a national park in Yamanashi, Shizuoka, and Kanagawa Prefectures, and western Tokyo Metropolis, Japan.

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Fujikawaguchiko

is a town located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.

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Fujiko (religion)

Fujiko (富士講) is a Japanese religious group.

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Fujinomiya, Shizuoka

is a city located in central Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha

The is a Shintō shrine in the city of Fujinomiya in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Mount Fuji and Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha are natural monuments of Japan and world Heritage Sites in Japan.

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Fujiyoshida

is a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.

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Fumarole

A fumarole (or fumerole) is a vent in the surface of the Earth or another rocky planet from which hot volcanic gases and vapors are emitted, without any accompanying liquids or solids.

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Fusō Ryakuki

The by Kōen, the teacher of Hōnen, is a Japanese historical text compiled at the end of the twelfth century.

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Geography of Japan

Japan is an archipelagic country comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago over along the Pacific coast of East Asia.

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The, or GSI, is the national institution responsible for surveying and mapping the national land of Japan.

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Gotemba, Shizuoka

is a city on the southeastern flank of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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H. Byron Earhart

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Haneda Airport

, sometimes referred to as Tokyo-Haneda, is one of two international airports serving the Greater Tokyo Area, the other one being Narita International Airport (NRT).

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Harry Parkes (diplomat)

Sir Harry Smith Parkes (24 February 1828 – 22 March 1885) was a British diplomat who served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul General of the United Kingdom to the Empire of Japan from 1865 to 1883 and the Chinese Qing Empire from 1883 to 1885, and Minister to Korea in 1884.

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Hawaiian eruption

A Hawaiian eruption is a type of volcanic eruption where lava flows from the vent in a relatively gentle, low level eruption; it is so named because it is characteristic of Hawaiian volcanoes.

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Hōei

was a after Genroku and before Shōtoku. This period spanned the years from March 1704 through April 1711.

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Hōei eruption

The Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji started on December 16, 1707 (during the Hōei era, 23rd day of the 11th month of the 4th year) and ended on February 24, 1708.

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Heian period

The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.

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Hiking

Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.

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Hirata Atsutane

was a Japanese scholar, conventionally ranked as one of the Four Great Men of Kokugaku (nativist) studies, and one of the most significant theologians of the Shintō religion.

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Hokusai

, known monomously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker.

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Honchō Seiki

is a historical text that categorizes and chronologizes the events listed in the Six National Histories.

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Honshu

, historically called, is the largest and most populous island of Japan.

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Ibaraki, Ibaraki

Lake Hinuma is a town located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Infiniti

(stylized as INFINITI) is the luxury vehicle division of the Japanese automaker Nissan, marketing having begun on November 8, 1989, in North America.

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Island arc

Island arcs are long chains of active volcanoes with intense seismic activity found along convergent tectonic plate boundaries.

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Izu Peninsula

The is a large mountainous peninsula with a deeply indented coastline to the west of Tokyo on the Pacific coast of the island of Honshu, Japan. Mount Fuji and Izu Peninsula are Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc.

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Izu Province

was a province of Japan in the area of Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc

The Izu–Bonin–Mariana (IBM) arc system is a tectonic plate convergent boundary in Micronesia.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japan Meteorological Agency

The Japan Meteorological Agency (気象庁, Kishō-chō), a division of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, is dedicated to the scientific observation and research of natural phenomena.

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Japanese art

Japanese art consists of a wide range of art styles and media that includes ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting and calligraphy on silk and paper, ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints, ceramics, origami, bonsai, and more recently manga and anime.

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Japanese honorifics

The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called, which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when referring to others in a conversation.

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Japanzine

Japanzine is a Japan-based English-language magazine, published by Carter Witt Media.

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John Batchelor (missionary)

Archdeacon John Batchelor, D.D., OBE (20 March 1855 – 2 April 1944) was an Anglican English missionary to the Ainu people of Japan until 1941.

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Kai Province

was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today Yamanashi Prefecture.

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Kamakura period

The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the Genpei War, which saw the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans.

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Kami

are the deities, divinities, spirits, mythological, spiritual, or natural phenomena that are venerated in the Shinto religion.

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Kamuy-huci

Kamuy-huci (カムイフチ, Kamui Fuchi) is the Ainu kamuy (goddess) of the hearth.

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Kanji

are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese.

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Kawaii

Kawaii is a Japanese cultural phenomenon which emphasizes cuteness, childlike innocence, charm, and simplicity.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kojiki

The, also sometimes read as or, is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the, and the Japanese imperial line.

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Konohanasakuya-hime

Konohanasakuya-hime is the goddess of Mount Fuji and all volcanoes in Japanese mythology; she is also the blossom-princess and symbol of delicate earthly life.

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Kotobank

is a Japanese-language online encyclopedia which allows users to search across dictionaries, encyclopedias, and databases provided by publishers and others.

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Kuni-no-Tokotachi

In Shinto faith, Kuninotokotachi or Kuni-toko-tachi is one of the two Gods born from "something like a reed that arose from the soil" when the Earth was chaotic. In the Kojiki, he is the first of the seven generations of Divinities born after the first five divinities were born at the time of the creation of the Universe.

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Kunrei-shiki romanization

, also known as the Monbusho system (named after the endonym for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) or MEXT system, is the Cabinet-ordered romanization system for transcribing the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet.

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Kuril Islands

The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (p; Japanese: or) are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East.

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Kyōsuke Kindaichi

was a Japanese linguist, chiefly known for his dictations of yukar, or sagas of the Ainu people, as well as his study of the Matagi dialect.

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Lake Ashi

, also referred to as Hakone Lake or Ashinoko Lake, is a scenic lake in the Hakone area of Kanagawa Prefecture in Honshū, Japan. Mount Fuji and lake Ashi are Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc.

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Lake Hamana

is a brackish lagoon in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Lake Kawaguchi

is located in the town of Fujikawaguchiko in southern Yamanashi Prefecture near Mount Fuji, Japan. Mount Fuji and Lake Kawaguchi are world Heritage Sites in Japan.

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Lake Motosu

is the westernmost of the Fuji Five Lakes and located on the border of the towns of Fujikawaguchiko and Minobu in southern Yamanashi Prefecture near Mount Fuji, Japan.

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Lake Shōji

is one of the Fuji Five Lakes and located in the town of Fujikawaguchiko in southern Yamanashi Prefecture near Mount Fuji, Japan.

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Lake Yamanaka

is located in the village of Yamanakako in Yamanashi Prefecture near Mount Fuji, Japan. Mount Fuji and Lake Yamanaka are world Heritage Sites in Japan.

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Lapilli

Lapilli (lapillus) is a size classification of tephra, which is material that falls out of the air during a volcanic eruption or during some meteorite impacts.

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Lava

Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.

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Lava tube

A lava tube, or pyroduct, is a natural conduit formed by flowing lava from a volcanic vent that moves beneath the hardened surface of a lava flow.

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Lee wave

In meteorology, lee waves are atmospheric stationary waves.

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Lippincott (brand consultancy)

Lippincott is an American brand strategy and design company.

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List of elevation extremes by country

The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory.

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List of islands by highest point

This is a list of islands in the world ordered by their highest point; it lists islands with peaks by elevation.

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List of mountain peaks by prominence

This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence.

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List of mountains and hills of Japan by height

The following is a list of the mountains and hills of Japan, ordered by height.

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List of Special Places of Scenic Beauty, Special Historic Sites and Special Natural Monuments

To protect Japan's cultural heritage, the country's government selects through the Agency for Cultural Affairs important items and designates them as Cultural Properties under the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties. Mount Fuji and List of Special Places of Scenic Beauty, Special Historic Sites and Special Natural Monuments are natural monuments of Japan.

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List of three-thousanders in Japan

There are 21 three-thousanders (mountains with elevations of or greater) in Japan.

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List of volcanoes by elevation

A list (incomplete) of volcanoes on Earth arranged by elevation in metres.

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List of World Heritage Sites in Japan

Japan accepted the UNESCO World Heritage Convention on 30 June 1992. Mount Fuji and List of World Heritage Sites in Japan are world Heritage Sites in Japan.

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Longman

Longman, also known as Pearson Longman, is a publishing company founded in London, England, in 1724 and is owned by Pearson PLC.

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Magma chamber

A magma chamber is a large pool of liquid rock beneath the surface of the Earth.

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Manga

are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.

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Meiji era

The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Minamoto no Yoritomo

was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate and of Japan, ruling from 1192 until 1199, also the first ruling shogun in the history of Japan.

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Ministry of the Environment (Japan)

The is a Cabinet-level ministry of the government of Japan responsible for global environmental conservation, pollution control, and nature conservation.

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Monuments of Japan

is a collective term used by the Japanese government's Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties to denote Cultural Properties of JapanIn this article, capitals indicate an official designation as opposed to a simple definition, e.g "Cultural Properties" as opposed to "cultural properties". Mount Fuji and Monuments of Japan are natural monuments of Japan.

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Mount Ōmuro (Mount Fuji)

is a mountain located at the northwestern foot of Mount Fuji, in Fujikawaguchiko, Minamitsuru District, Yamanashi Prefecture. Mount Fuji and mount Ōmuro (Mount Fuji) are mountains of Yamanashi Prefecture and volcanoes of Yamanashi Prefecture.

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Mount Fuji Radar System

The Mount Fuji Radar System is a historic weather radar system located on the summit of Mount Fuji, Japan.

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Mount Haku

, or Mount Hakusan (commonly referred to as simply Hakusan), is a dormant stratovolcano in Japan. Mount Fuji and Mount Haku are Pleistocene Asia, Pleistocene stratovolcanoes, Sacred mountains of Japan and volcanoes of Honshū.

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Mount Hōei

Mount Hōei (Hōeizan) is a flank volcano on the southeastern side of Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Mount Fuji and Mount Hōei are mountains of Shizuoka Prefecture, Tourist attractions in Shizuoka Prefecture, volcanoes of Honshū and volcanoes of Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Mount Kerinci

Mount Kerinci (also spelled Kerintji, among several other ways, and referred to as Gunung Kerinci, Gadang, Berapi Kurinci, Kerinchi, Korinci/Korintji, or Peak of Indrapura/Indrapoera) is an active stratovolcano and the highest mountain in Sumatra, Indonesia. Mount Fuji and mount Kerinci are Subduction volcanoes.

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Mount St. Helens

Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Mount Fuji and Mount St. Helens are active volcanoes, Pleistocene stratovolcanoes, Subduction volcanoes and VEI-5 volcanoes.

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Mount Taranaki

Mount Taranaki (also called Mt Egmont) is a dormant stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. Mount Fuji and Mount Taranaki are active volcanoes and Pleistocene stratovolcanoes.

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Mount Tate

, also known as Tateyama, is a mountain located in the southeastern area of Toyama Prefecture, Japan. Mount Fuji and mount Tate are Sacred mountains of Japan.

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Mountaineering

Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains.

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Municipalities of Japan

Japan has three levels of governments: national, prefectural, and municipal.

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Musashi Province

was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo Metropolis, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Narita International Airport

, also known as Tokyo-Narita International Airport, formerly and originally known as, is one of two international airports serving the Greater Tokyo Area, the other one being Haneda Airport (HND).

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Narusawa, Yamanashi

is a village located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nihon Ōdai Ichiran

, The Table of the Rulers of Japan, is a 17th-century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings.

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Nihon Kiryaku

is a historical text that categorizes and chronologizes the events listed in the Six National Histories.

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Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku

, abbreviated as Sandai Jitsuroku, is an officially commissioned Japanese history text.

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Nihon Shoki

The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history.

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Nihon-shiki romanization

Nihon-shiki (lit, romanized as Nihonsiki in the system itself) is a romanization system for transliterating the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet.

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Ninigi-no-Mikoto

is a deity in Japanese mythology.

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Northeastern Japan Arc

The Northeastern Japan Arc, also Northeastern Honshū Arc, is an island arc on the Pacific Ring of Fire.

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Oceanic trench

Oceanic trenches are prominent, long, narrow topographic depressions of the ocean floor.

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Okhotsk microplate

The Okhotsk microplate is a proposed minor tectonic plate covering the Kamchatka Peninsula, Magadan Oblast, and Sakhalin Island of Russia; Hokkaido, Kantō and Tōhoku regions of Japan; the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as the disputed Kuril Islands.

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On'yomi

, or the Sino-Japanese reading, is the reading of a kanji based on the historical Chinese pronunciation of the character.

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One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji

is a series of three illustrated books by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai.

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Oyama, Shizuoka

is a town located in Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Pacific Plate

The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.

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Paragliding

Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure.

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Pascal (unit)

The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the unit of pressure in the International System of Units (SI).

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Philippine Sea Plate

The Philippine Sea Plate or the Philippine Plate is a tectonic plate comprising oceanic lithosphere that lies beneath the Philippine Sea, to the east of the Philippines.

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Pneumocephalus

Pneumocephalus is the presence of air or gas within the cranial cavity.

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Pottery

Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form.

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Prefectures of Japan

Japan is divided into 47 prefectures (todōfuken), which rank immediately below the national government and form the country's first level of jurisdiction and administrative division.

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Radical 33

Radical 33 or radical scholar (士部) meaning "scholar" or "bachelor" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.

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Reed bed

A reedbed or reed bed is a natural habitat found in floodplains, waterlogged depressions and estuaries.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Richter scale

The Richter scale, also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale".

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Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society, was established, according to its royal charter of 11 August 1824, to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia." From its incorporation the society has been a forum, through lectures, its journal, and other publications, for scholarship relating to Asian culture and society of the highest level.

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Rutherford Alcock

Sir John Rutherford Alcock, KCB (25 May 1809London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–18122 November 1897) was the first British diplomatic representative to live in Japan.

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Sagami Province

was a province of Japan located in what is today the central and western Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Saiko Lake

, sometimes Saiko, is one of the Fuji Five Lakes and located in the town of Fujikawaguchiko in southern Yamanashi Prefecture near Mount Fuji, Japan.

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Saitama (city)

is the capital and largest city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

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Scoria

Scoria is a pyroclastic, highly vesicular, dark-colored volcanic rock formed by ejection from a volcano as a molten blob and cooled in the air to form discrete grains called clasts.

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Sengen shrine

An is a type of Shinto Shrine in Japan centered on the worship of the kami of volcanos in general, and Mount Fuji in particular.

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Shinto

Shinto is a religion originating in Japan.

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Shizuoka Airport

, also called Mt.

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Shizuoka Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu.

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Shizuoka University

is a national university in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Shogun

Shogun (shōgun), officially, was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868.

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Shoku Nihongi

The is an imperially-commissioned Japanese history text.

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Shugendō

is a highly syncretic religion, a body of ascetic practices that originated in the Nara Period of Japan having evolved during the 7th century from an amalgamation of beliefs, philosophies, doctrines and ritual systems drawn from local folk-religious practices, Shinto mountain worship and Buddhism.

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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is an international research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale from 56°S to 60°N, to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth prior to the release of the ASTER GDEM in 2009.

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Sino-Japanese vocabulary

Sino-Japanese vocabulary, also known as, is a subset of Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese or was created from elements borrowed from Chinese.

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Snow field

A snow field, snowfield or neve is an accumulation of permanent snow and ice, typically found above the snow line, normally in mountainous and glacial terrain.

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Sound change

A sound change, in historical linguistics, is a change in the pronunciation of a language.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Stratovolcano

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra.

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Subduction

Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.

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Sumatra

Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.

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Sunritz Hattori Museum of Arts

is located on the shore of Lake Suwa in Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

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Tōkaidō (road)

The, which roughly means "eastern sea route," was the most important of the Five Routes of the Edo period in Japan, connecting Kyoto to Edo (modern-day Tokyo).

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The Asahi Shimbun

is one of the five largest newspapers in Japan.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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The New England Journal of Medicine

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

is a (fictional prose narrative) containing elements of Japanese folklore.

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Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

is a series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849).

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Three Holy Mountains

The are three mountains. Mount Fuji and three Holy Mountains are Sacred mountains of Japan.

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Tochigi (city)

is a city located in Tochigi Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Toponymy

Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types.

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Triple junction

A triple junction is the point where the boundaries of three tectonic plates meet. Mount Fuji and triple junction are triple junctions.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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Ultra-prominent peak

An ultra-prominent peak, or ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Visible Ink Press

Visible Ink Press, LLC is a publisher of popular reference works.

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Volcanic ash

Volcanic ash consists of fragments of rock, mineral crystals, and volcanic glass, produced during volcanic eruptions and measuring less than 2 mm (0.079 inches) in diameter.

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Volcanic cone

Volcanic cones are among the simplest volcanic landforms.

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Volcanic crater

A volcanic crater is an approximately circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity.

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Volcanic landslide

A volcanic landslide or volcanogenic landslide is a type of mass wasting that takes place at volcanoes.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Wisteria

Wisteria is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae (Leguminosae).

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Woodblock printing in Japan

Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, mokuhanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period.

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Yabusame

is a type of mounted archery in traditional Japanese archery.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.

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Yamanashi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu.

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Yamanashi, Yamanashi

Yamanashi city center from the Fuefuki River is a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.

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Yamato people

The or the David Blake Willis and Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu:, p. 272: "Wajin," which is written with Chinese characters that can also be read "Yamato no hito" (Yamato person).

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Yōkai

are a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore.

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Yūrei

are figures in Japanese folklore analogous to the Western concept of ghosts.

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Yomiuri Shimbun

The is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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100 Famous Japanese Mountains

is a book written in 1964 by mountaineer and author Kyūya Fukada.

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1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens

On March27, 1980, a series of volcanic explosions and pyroclastic flows began at Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington, United States.

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2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

On 11 March 2011, at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC), a 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region.

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References

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