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Mount Fuji
Fog in the foreground of Mount Fuji, Japan.
Shin Fuji ("New Fuji") is estimated to have first become active approximately 10,000 years ago. Since that time, it has continued to erupt or smolder, eventually filling in the slopes of its predecessors and forming the mountain's current tapered shape.1