Japanese authorities have issued guidance on how the public should respond if the famous Mount Fuji volcano, near Tokyo, were to erupt. Experts recommend sheltering at home and maintaining a ...

A government-appointed panel, composed of volcanologists and disaster preparedness experts, has now issued a set of guidelines on how to handle such a crisis, particularly if the eruption leads to ...

Visibility would diminish to zero. An eruption on the scale of Mount Fuji's last eruption could go on for two weeks, the panel said. One Tokyo metropolitan government official reportedly said it ...

Residents are usually advised to keep a week’s worth of emergency supplies for earthquakes, but the panel suggests stocking up more since a Mount Fuji eruption could last longer. The last ...

The panel also called on municipalities and households to maintain emergency supplies like food and water in case the 3,776-meter volcano were to erupt. Mount Fuji last erupted in 1707.

It last erupted 318 years ago ... The economic loss from a Mount Fuji eruption is estimated to be up to 2.5 trillion yen ($16.6 billion). Even a small amount of accumulated volcanic ash could ...