Visitors are seen at the fifth stage on the slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest mountain 3,776 meters (12,388 ft), in Fujiyoshida, Japan, September 9, 2023. REUTERS/Mariko Katsumura FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan — On a grey, rainy Saturday a steady stream of tour buses arrive at a base station of Japan's Mount Fuji depositing dozens of lightly dressed foreign tourists in front of souvenir shops and restaurants. The scene evokes a theme park image, not the veneration most Japanese would expect below the 3,776-meter (12,388 ft) mountain worshipped as sacred by the Japanese, and a source of pride for its perfectly symmetrical form.

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