Fuji

A 27-year-old university student who climbed Mount Fuji outside of its official climbing season was rescued twice in four days, after he returned to look for his mobile phone.

Gibbs said he was at Camp Fuji in Japan 1979 when a fuel leak caught fire and wind-driven flames roared through the camp, burning more than a dozen huts where Marines slept, killing 13.

At its heart was Masahiro Nakai, a household name and leading presenter for Fuji TV, one of the country's biggest broadcasters.

An international team of researchers began by creating the first "fully phased" genome of the popular Fuji apple -- essentially a complete genetic blueprint that clearly distinguishes between genes inherited from each of the two parents.

Japan's Mount Fuji has seen its first snowfall after going through the longest period without snow since records began 130 years ago.