Hello, I am Yoshi from NILS Japanese language school. Some of our students say that they want to climb Mt. Fuji some time in the future. I would like to talk about Mt. Fuji 富士山 today.
Mt. Fuji, the highest peak in Japan, is 3,776 meters in height. It has been worshipped and loved by the Japanese people since ancient times fro its noble and nearly perfect conical shape. It is classified as an active volcano whose last eruption took place in 1707. At that time, three inches of ashes fell on Tokyo—at that time, Edo—about 120 kilometers away from the mountain. The name “Fuji” meant fire mountain in the aborigines’ language and it also means immortality.



May 14th News from NILS Japanese language school.