In the foothills of Mount Fuji, a festival to the gods of the mountain. “We’re trying to calm the fires of Mt Fuji, you know to stop it erupting.”
“There are lots of examples where volcanoes have erupted after a nearby Magnitude 9 earthquake. That’s what happened after the Kamchatka, Chile and Sumatra quakes. So there’s an increased chance of an eruption at Japanese volcanoes like Mt Fuji since the earthquake here last year.” 300 years ago ash spread over what’s now Tokyo for two weeks — and the government thinks it could happen again.
