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  • It’s the highest mountain in Japan, only it’s not really a mountain, it’s a volcano, and some people here call it Mount Fujiyama, but that’s wrong because yama means ‘mountain,’ so that’s the same thing as calling it ‘Mount Fuji Mountain.’

    Babylon Nights Daniel Depp 2010

  • Today, Japan's economy remains dead in the water and its treasury is left with a Mount Fujiyama of debt.

    Eric Margolis: Medieval Economic Nostrums 2009

  • Simultaneously, from the murkiness of the sea, our morning sun peeled back the sapphire sky just beyond the snow-capped peak of Mount Fujiyama and bathed us in its rays.

    unknown title 2009

  • Mount Fujiyama calls to mind any number of geographical examples.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2 1975

  • The second is, strictly speaking, more like collecting bizarre sorts of rocks than like playing a game; it involves finding examples of phrases that are bilingually redundant, like Mount Fujiyama (literally, ` Mount Fuji-mount ').

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 4 1974

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