- Why did Mount Fuji (富士山) become Fujiyama in English?
Wikipedia refers to "Fujiyama" as a disambiguation to "Mount Fuji" and I even saw a Japanese book with the title "FUJIYAMA" Was it really someone's mistake or Japanese has some variation about this particular mountain?
- ふじさん vs ふじやま what is Vocabulary Reading?
The term Fujiyama comes from "fuji", and "yama" which means mountain Mount Fuji is seldom referred to as "Fujiyama" in Japanese culture, but is instead more commonly referred to as "Fujisan", using the on'yomi pronunciation of the "mountain" character The roller coaster Fujiyama is named as a play on the common foreign mistransliteration
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