Russia, in many measures the poorest nation in Europe at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, now industrialized at a phenomenal rate, far surpassing Germany's pace of industrialization in the 19th century and Japan's earlier in the 20th century.
NASA Earth Observatory. acquired April 8, 2009 download large image (599 KB, JPEG, 1440x960). The 3,776-meter-high (12,388 feet) Mount Fuji Volcano, located on the island of Honshu in Japan, is one of the worldâs classic examples of a stratovolcano.ount Fuji, or Fuji-san in Japanese, is actually comprised of several overlapping volcanoes that began erupting in the Pleistocene Epoch (1.8 million to approximately 10,000 years ago).
Mount Fuji is one of Japan's Three Holy Mountains (ä¸éå±±, Sanreizan) along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku. It is also a Special Place of Scenic Beauty and one of Japan's Historic Sites. It was added to the World Heritage List as a Cultural Site on June 22, 2013.oday, Mount Fuji is an international destination for tourism and mountain climbing. In the early 20th century, populist educator Frederick Starr 's Chautauqua lectures about his several ascents of Mount Fujiâ1913, 1919, and 1923âwere widely known in America.