Approximately 180 Past Eruptions! Is the Summit in Shizuoka or Yamanashi? Japan's Most Famous Yet Full of Unknowns! 'So Interesting You Can't Sleep Illustrated: The Story of Mount Fuji' to be Released on April 10!

Nihon Bungeisha Co., Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) will release 'So Interesting You Can't Sleep Illustrated: The Story of Mount Fuji' (supervised by the Fuji Society) at bookstores and online bookstores nationwide from Friday, April 10, 2026.

~From geology, history, legends, and the hidden side of life that guidebooks don't tell you~ Mount Fuji, the spiritual home of the Japanese people and a World Cultural Heritage site. While images of 'beauty' and 'height' precede it, its reality is a 'volcano that repeatedly erupts' full of surprises and a 'treasure trove of mysteries'.

This book, as the latest work in the 'So Interesting You Can't Sleep Illustrated' series, which has sold over 4 million copies, dissects the essence of Mount Fuji from all angles, including geology, history, art, religion, and lifestyle, under the supervision of the Fuji Society.

Japan's No. 1 mountain is amazing just by looking at the numbers!

■ Highlights of this book: Mount Fuji trivia you'll want to tell someone

**[Science]** Was Mount Fuji once 'Twin Peaks'!? The turbulent history of its collapse.

**[Numbers]** Its volume is equivalent to 50 Lake Biwas! If it were a building, it would be 899 stories high! Visualizing its overwhelming scale.

**[History]** Princess Kaguya was not from the moon but from Fuji.