KOFU — Workers began dismantling on Wednesday morning a dome on a radar station atop Mount Fuji and were expected to finish the job within a day, weather permitting, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
The agency used the radar for typhoon detection until November 1999. It has been sitting on the summit of the 3,776-meter mountain since 1964.
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