MT. FUJI HAS INSPIRED Japan's poets and painters for centuries, but it's also lured pilots. At 12,389 feet, its volcanic cone is the highest in Japan, and looms over Tokyo, 65 miles to its northeast. No one knows the first time an aircraft flew by Fujiyama, but in December 1910, Lieutenant General Baron Tokugawa Yoshitoshi of the Japanese Imperial Army likely climbed high enough from a Tokyo park to silhouette his Farman III biplane against the mountain.
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