As you can see many mountains are around Fuji on the horizon in the photo above, actually about 70% of Japanese islands are covered by mountains and hills. Then a new national holiday on August 11th named "Yama-no-hi (The Mountain Day)" started to be enforced this year.
This holiday was not established to commemorate any events relating to mountains but to increase opportunities to get close to mountains and to feel thankful to the blessings of mountains. Since Japanese have been having nature worship from ancient times and in fact many of mountains have been considered as gods, probably being thankful to mountains sounds too natural to most people, but anyway it's nice to have a day to think about beautiful mountains anew.
Moreover, Japanese mountain gods would be happy with this new holiday!
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