Mainichi reported that litter and other trash are piling up on Japan’s sacred Mount Fuji…
“If you look up from the forests at the foot of Japan’s Mount Fuji, the volcano’s graceful slopes rise into the distance and peak in a nearly symmetrical, snowcapped cone.
If you look down in the forests, however, you see something much less elegant: trash… lots of it. Just below the surface of leaves and topsoil are discarded microwave ovens, construction debris, broken office furniture, even rusting refrigerators.
Mount Fuji, the pride of the nation and symbol of the Japanese soul, is a huge garbage dump.”
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