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Well .. you’re wrong and I think you know it.
It’ll really impress people if you say “Mount Fujiyama-san”
I remember when a volcano in Mexico got mentioned in Japanese news, and we were all collectively losing out minds (positively) because they were calling it Popocatepetl-san
Haha that’s funny, I never noticed that because mountain is also san/shan in some other Asian languages
さん in this case means simply ‘mountain’. Although if we are using honorifics, then Fuji is definitely a ‘she’ as she’s the Mother Mountain and a goddess.
Huh, learned something new here. 山 is read as -san when used as a place name (ex. Mt. in English).
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