A volcano erupted in central Japan on Saturday, sending a large plume of ash high into the sky.<br /><br />Mount Ontake erupted shortly before noon. The 3,067-meter peak sits on the border of Nagano and Gifu prefectures on the spine of mountains that run down Honshu, Japan’s main island.<br /><br /> Japan’s meteorological agency raised the alert level for Mount Ontake to three on a scale of one to five and warned people to stay away from the mountain.<br />No Comment | euronews: watch the international news without commentary | http://www.euronews.net/nocomment/
