Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji
Gipsy Avenger plummets toward Mt. Fuji
Country / Continent	Japan
Location	Honshū
Population	None
Status	Active
Notable Events	Mega-Kaiju attack (2035)
Notable Locations	Aokigahara forest

Mount Fuji (富士山, Fujisan^?), located on the island of Honshū, is the second-highest volcano located on an island in Asia (after Mount Kerinci on the island of Sumatra), and seventh-highest peak of an island on Earth. It was the location of a major Kaiju attack in 2035.

History

2013-2025

Since the beginning of the Kaiju Wars, the Precursors have sent the Kaiju through the Breach with the intention of going to Mount Fuji. With blood designed to react to the "rare earth minerals" within the active volcano, Kaiju emerging from the Mariana Trench, and attacking various cities of across the Pacific Rim, were all working to reach Tokyo, Japan. If the Kaiju reached the volcano, it would commit suicide inside, triggering an eruption that would terraform the planet for the Precursors to inhabit.

Though their efforts were repeatedly thwarted by the Pan Pacific Defense Corps Jaegers, the PPDC remained unaware of the Kaiju's true intentions beyond destruction of coastal cities. One of the last Kaiju to actively seek out Mount Fuji was Mutavore, who demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the Anti-Kaiju Wall as well. The Precursors mission to reach Mount Fuji was temporarily halted to kill K-Science officer, Newton Geiszler, who learned of their plans after Drifting with a secondary Kaiju brain.

2035

Three Kaiju (Raijin, Hakuja, and Shrikethorn) emerge from artificial Breaches created by the drone hybrids, and make landfall in MegaTokyo. The three Kaiju are merged together to create a gestalt Kaiju. The Mega-Kaiju destroyed all combat able Jaegers, except Gipsy Avenger, and headed towards Mount Fuji.

Once the PPDC learn the Precursors planned to trigger an extinction event that would terraform the planet, Gipsy Avenger, with the help of Scrapper, used the PPDC's Kaiju blood-fueled rocket to reach the top of Mount Fuji before the Mega-Kaiju. The Mega-Kaiju is bisected by the impact of Gipsy Avenger's crash, preventing the extinction level event from occurring.

Trivia

• According to the audio commentary for Pacific Rim Uprising, director Steven S. DeKnight states that the plot twist involving Mount Fuji was done to justify using Kaiju blood as rocket fuel.
• Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan, standing 3,776.24 m (12,389.2 ft).
• Mount Fuji is an active volcano. However, its last eruption occurred in 1707.