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Mt Fuji is so crowded with climbers, their sticks are close enough to touch

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Shiho Nakajima, 41, a “Fujisan ranger” designated by the Yamanashi prefectural government as a nature conservation ranger. Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures are finding it difficult to balance measures for environmental protection and their promotion of tourism. (Yomiuri Shimbun)

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The World Heritage program is a wonderful thing to acknowledge greatness in nature and human culture and to preserve such for posterity.

But there seems to be an unhealthy obssession here (and other places) from exploiting the status to it's full marketable potential by the entrepeneurs to the overly fanatical desire to visit such places.

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I had to do a double take. I thought "stick" was a reference to something other than "walking stick".

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Daily numbers should be capped via registration.

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