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In 1965, Oshima Island and the volcano itself appeared in the climax of Gamera's debut film, where the military lured the giant turtle there as a means to trap it in a giant rocket-ship built on the island. Mount Mihara was the place where the Japanese government imprisoned Godzilla in the movie The Return of Godzilla.
Quaternary Volcanoes of Japan - Geological Survey of Japan; Volcano on Google Map - Geological Survey of Japan; The National Catalogue of the Active Volcanoes in Japan - Japan Meteorological Agency; 日本の主な山岳標高 (Elevation of Principal Mountains in Japan) - Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (in Japanese)
Initially, volcanic ash crosses the Bashi Channel and enters the South China Sea. [12] This eruption is considered to be one of the largest in Japan after the Second World War. [13] Observations by the Japan Coast Guard on August 15 confirm a new island roughly 1 km (0.62 mi) in diameter. [14]
Aogashima (青ヶ島) is a volcanic island to the south of Japan in northernmost Micronesia.It is the southernmost and most isolated inhabited island of the Izu Islands.The islands border the northeast Philippine Sea and lie north of the Ogasawara Islands.
Geologically, the mountain is a cinder cone of andesite, formed by volcanic activity. It is thought [by whom?] that the mountain is a dormant vent to a still active volcano (designated Iō-tō, the name of the island as a whole). From 1889 to 1957, the Japanese government recorded sixteen eruptions on the peak.
Many of Japan's typical examples of dinosaur fossils were found in this area. One of the major rock outcrops is in the Kuwashima area and is known as the "Kuwashima Fossil Wall" (桑島化石壁 Kuwashima Kasekikabe). Because the mountain is a dormant volcano, it is well known for its many onsen.
Mount Yōtei (羊蹄山, Yōtei-zan, literally "sheep-hoof mountain") is an active [2] [3] stratovolcano located in Shikotsu-Toya National Park, Hokkaidō, Japan.It is also called Yezo Fuji or Ezo Fuji (蝦夷富士), "Ezo" being an old name for the island of Hokkaido, because it resembles Mount Fuji.
The Zaō Mountains (蔵王連峰, Zaō Renpō), commonly called Mount Zaō, are a complex cluster of stratovolcanoes on the border between Yamagata Prefecture and Miyagi Prefecture in Japan. The central volcano of the group includes several lava domes and a tuff cone , Goshiki-dake, which contains a crater lake named " Okama ".