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Japan's Mount Fuji will become a World Heritage Site in June. The United Nations (U.N.) on April the 30th to give the famous mountain UNESCO World Heritage . The U.N. team that made the decision said Fuji was very important to Japanese and art. They also said that the 3,776-meter-high was important outside of Japan too. Fuji-san (as Japanese people call it) has been a mountain for more than 1,000 years. Priests say that when you it, you move from the " world" at the bottom, to the "world of gods, Buddha and " at the top. They believe people can away their sins by climbing to the top and back down again.

Mount Fuji is a tourist destination. It is very with hikers, who want to see the rising sun from its . More than 318,000 hikers visited the mountain last summer, with up to 15,000 people climbing day. Local residents are now the World Heritage status will mean more visitors. That means there will be more and environmental problems. The local government may ask people to to climb the mountain to help preserve its . Governor Shomei Yokouchi said: “It’s likely we’ll ask mountain climbers to help with keeping the mountain clean." Another idea being talked about is to the daily number of hikers allowed to the top.

 


 
 

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