Japan's iconic Mount Fuji is experiencing an unprecedented snowless period, having missed its typical early October snow cap for the latest time on record.
This phenomenon has shattered a 130-year-old record set in 1894, the year when snowfall data was first recorded.
Meteorological experts attribute the delay in snowfall to unusually warm temperatures, a trend influenced by this year's
exceptionally hot summer.
As a result, the mountain, usually adorned with a snow cap by early October, remains bare