The Explosion of Fukushima's Mt Bandai

The year was 1888. On a pleasant summer day in Japan, the early-morning tranquility of rural Fukushima Prefecture was suddenly interrupted by an earth-shattering explosion. Mt. Bandai, “the Mount Fuji of the North” had erupted so fiercely that it remade the local landscape. Whole mountainsides crumbled, hamlets were buried under meters of earth, and newly formed lakes inundated whole villages. This is the incredible story of how Meiji-era Japan suffered – and recovered – from the worst volcanic disaster in modern Japanese history.

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►Original article by Noah Oskow can be found here: https://unseenjapan.com/mount-bandai-japan-eruption-volcano/
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Special thanks go out to 和田裕司 (Wada Hiroshi) and Mark McFarlane for allowing us to use their beautiful drone footage of the Bandai and Inawashiro region. More of their impressive footage can be found below:

► Wada Hiroshi: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTPoTmpjTVGAv9A5zQZDVVw

► Mark McFarlane: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGkYIX52inJWuLjN94kLQQ

Video by Noah Oskow.

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