My Japanese dictionary says "san" is another reading for 
and means "mount" as in Mount Fuji.
Posted on 06/08/2007 9:10:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
I guess all the envirowienies at the UN need to go and clean up thast international heritage site. They need something to do, rather than playing politics and screwing up the world.
Word search: "Aokigahara". I can't remember how to make a link in HTML. (Shame on me.)
They must not have prison crews in Japan.
fyi Fuji-San means Mr. Fuji. Fuji-Yama means Mount Fuji. I live in Japan and I used to see streets and sidewalks as clean as Singapores. Then the Enviroweenies came and now we have to separate everything by color coded bags that we have to pay for. People got fed up and now I see trash that has been thrown from car windows all over. Its a shame what the Enviros did to the environment.
Great line!
Japanese are some of the worst litterbugs in the world . And with the heavy cost of disposing of cars , tvs , fridges , etc...all one need to is take a walk thru what once were pristine forests to discover where folks discard their junk for free .
If one were to take a fridge to the town dump , one would be charged $ 40 . If one buys a new fridge , the dealer charges $ 40 to dispose of the old one . Either way you pay . Looks like a lot of folks think they are getting ripped off . Where’s all the tax money going ? Into politcos dirty pockets ?
Correct about the -san, -yama. Pretty basic Japanese.
And if you think Japan has problems, go poke around Beijing. Makes Tokyo look like a hospital. I had a Beijing traffic cop tell my to put out my cigarette because smoking on the streets is forbidden. LOL. Just breathing the air is like chaining a pack of Chesterfields in about a half an hour.
Looks like the Japanese government is going to have to set up a gate at every mountain road entrance and force people to pay outrageous fees to dispose of their garbage , just like they do to commuters who use the expressways in Japan . A one way trip from Fukuoka to Tokyo - roughly 900 miles , will set you back $ 250 - the same as an air ticket !
LOL
You have never been to Russia I take it.
Is it a REQUIREMENT that reporters be stupid?
Fuji-san = Mr. Fuji, or maybe better, Honorable Fuji.
Fujiyama = Fuji Mountain.
Mt. Fujiyama = Mount Fuji Mountain...
In 1957 I was an eight year old kid who saw Fujiyama’s looming shadow every sunset from the U.S. Forces housing area. On rare clear mornings we saw its trademark snowcapped peak.
I didn’t know at that tender age about things like the rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, or the Bataan Death March. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, either.
Backward, backward
O time in your flight,
To be a child again
Just for tonight...
My Japanese dictionary says "san" is another reading for and means "mount" as in Mount Fuji.
That has to rank as about the stupidest thing I've read today. As if there are people in the world who would never hear of Fuji if it wasn't a UN World Heritage Site and that those same people would only visit Fuji because it was.
See my #18.
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