TOKYO -- As foreign visitors return to Japan in droves for the first summer since 2019, authorities in the country are bracing for another potential surge -- in the number of accidents at tourism magnet Mount Fuji and on the nation's roads.
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Japan's tourism boom stirs accident jitters
Mount Fuji climber numbers soar as mountain refuge space declines
According to the Ministry of the Environment, around 42,000 climbers visited Japan’s iconic peak in the first 16 days of July, a jump of 40% from the same period in 2019. © Kyodo
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