TOKYO -- Japan will begin issuing passports as soon as next month that feature ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai's famous woodblock prints of Mount Fuji -- a new design meant to help thwart forgery.
Elements of Hokusai's early 19th century "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji," one of Japan's best-known works of art, will feature on inside pages of the new passports.
