Mount Fuji is not merely Japan’s highest mountain. Revered since ancient times and a wellspring of artistic inspiration, it was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Cultural Heritage list in 2013 as “Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration.” Drawn by its universal value and easy access from the Tokyo metropolitan area, visitors from Japan and abroad have flocked there in great numbers.
As the Xi Jinping administration intensifies its confrontational stance towards the U.S., it is speeding up domestic production of semiconductors which are “the rice of industry,” in fear of decoupling from the international supply chain.