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Online Public Lecture on Tadami River Power Development (Okutadami Dam and Tagokura Dam) Call for Participants

An online public lecture titled "Building Giant Dams on the Tadami River" will be held on the Tadami River Power Development (Okutadami Dam and Tagokura Dam), which was investigated and covered by Professor Shuji Tanaka of Tohoku University. He will explain how they were built, the social background, local conditions, and civil engineering techniques from various perspectives....
Tochigi Prefecture Dam

0568-Fukayama Dam (Miyama Dam)

Date of coverage: 11/19/2014 (Wed) We came here via Shiobara Dam (glimpse only) and Itamuro Dam (entrance only), and then Fukayama Dam. It was one of the main dishes of the day. The Fukayama Dam was constructed at the uppermost reaches of the Naka River as part of the national Nasunohara Development and Construction Project. Agricultural water...
Tochigi Prefecture Dam

0569-Itamuro Dam

Date of interview: 11/19/2014 (Wed.) Itamuro Dam is a gravity concrete dam constructed as a reverse control reservoir for the Fukayama Dam and the Itamuro Power Plant of the Tochigi Prefectural Enterprise Bureau, which are located upstream. Itamuro Dam also takes in water for irrigation and water supply. The road to Itamuro Dam I knew it, but I didn't dare...
Tochigi Prefecture Dam

0570-Shiobara Dam

Date of interview: 11/19/2014 (Wed.) On this day, I visited Nasu Shiobara in Tochigi Prefecture for the first time in four years. The last time I visited Nasu Shiobara, I took the bullet train to participate in a tour of the Yashio Dam and the Snakeo River Dam, but I felt it was a waste of a long trip, so this time I took the car and...
Nagano Prefecture Dam

3280-Minamiaki Dam

Interview Date: 08/17/2014 (Sun) After visiting Kurobe Dam and Utsukushi-ga-hara Highland Museum of Art in Toyama on a 2-day/1-night family trip, we came to Minamiasagi Dam. The white limestone riprap looks like a chalk castle, and it is more beautiful than it sounds. The Namisaki Dam is a pumped-storage power...
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We visited the Meiji Water Headworks, which has been a hot topic due to the leakage problem.

I wanted to see a precious sight that is only available now, and I wanted to feel firsthand the situation that can only be understood on site and the real struggles being made, so on Sunday, May 22, I visited the Meiji Water Headworks, which is in a difficult situation due to the leakage problem. Hello, it's time for the Dam Log. In the Tokai region, there are daily local ni...
Dam in Mie Prefecture

1320-Katada Dam

Date of interview: 06/08/2014 (Sunday) I came to Katada Dam in Tsu City because there is a dam in Mie Prefecture that has a moco dam. Actually, I had visited there on May 31 of the same year, but was not able to enter that day and had to revisit the following week. The famous yakiniku restaurant Ichi Masubin in Mie...
Dam in Aichi Prefecture

1229-Shin Toyone Dam

The day after the memorable 1st Gathering with Dam Lovers in Agigawa Dam, we decided to go and get an instruction manual for the new Toyone Dam card together! We were given an opportunity to visit the inside of the dam. Bones (?) of the aggregate of the Shin Toyone Dam The bones (?) of the aggregate of Shin-Toyone Dam...
Driving course

April 2014 Hyogo Tamba/Kyoto West Dam Tour (Tsubashi Dam - Hiyoshi Dam)

On this day, I visited dams in the Tamba region of Hyogo Prefecture to participate in the award ceremony of the Japan Dam Association's photo contest to be held at Hiyoshi Dam before the ceremony begins. Although most of the dams are fill dams, they are important dams and reservoirs that support agriculture in the Tamba area...
Hyogo Prefecture Dam

1482-Nagatani Oike Pond

Date: 04/20/2014 (Sun) The Hase Great Pond was the last stop on our tour of dams in the Tamba region. Hase Great Pond is an earth dam for irrigation only, and is a typical agricultural dam and reservoir with rice paddies downstream. The construction of the dam, however, has a history of hardship as evidenced by the stone monument on the site...
Hyogo Prefecture Dam

3045-Mitakara Dam

Date of interview: 04/20/2014 (Sun) The Minosho area, where the Sanpo Dam is located, originally had "three wells" as the name of the area suggests, which were treasures for the residents to nurture their lives. Therefore, the Sanpo Dam was named in the hope that it would be a treasure as well...
Hyogo Prefecture Dam

3234-Kurikara Dam

Interview Date: 04/20/2014 (Sun) Kurigara Dam was originally constructed under the name of Nishiki Dam (Nishiki Dam). It is a gravity-type concrete dam designed to control floods in the Kurigara area, provide water for the water supply, and maintain the normal functioning of running water. The name "Kurigara" is derived from the ...
Hyogo Prefecture Dam

3367-Sanaka Dam

Date of interview: 04/20/2014 (Sunday) Sanaka Dam is an irrigation earth dam in Tamba-Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture, and is one of four dams (Sanaka Dam, Tsubasaichi Dam, Hachimantani Dam, and Fujioka Dam) constructed as part of the Sasayama River Coastal Land Improvement Project Plan by the prefectural government's Irrigation and Drainage Project. ...
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Hometown tax returns related to dams

Furusato tax payment is a system under which you can receive an income tax refund or an inhabitant tax credit by donating to the municipality where you were born or have a special feeling for, outside of your area of residence. In addition, you can receive specialties of the municipality you donated to as a return gift. In this article, we will discuss the dam-related...
Introduction to Dams

Momosuke Fukuzawa

Reading: Momosuke Fukuzawa (福ざわ桃スケ), a businessman active from the late Meiji period to the early Showa period (1926-1989). He was mainly active in the Japanese electric power industry and was nicknamed the "King of Electric Power in Japan. Momosuke Fukuzawa, formerly known as Momosuke Iwasaki, was born in Arako Village, Yokomi-gun, Musashi Province...
Off-line meeting/event report

I went to the Kosibu Dam abatement works opening event.

The following announcement was made on Twitter by the Tenryu River Dam Integrated Management Office. The water in the reduction works of the Kosibu Dam will be drained and the dam will be opened to the public! The number of people infected with the new coronavirus has just decreased considerably, and while countermeasures are being taken...
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Infrastructure YouTuber and I toured the Yahagi Dam!

I was going to publish this article last year, but it was all too late and the year has come and gone. Hi, it's time for the dam log. Last year, in November 2021, Yahagi Dam had an alternative discharge due to an inspection of the power plant, and the video coverage was timed to coincide with that...
Dam in Shiga Prefecture

1355-Serikawa Dam

Date of visit: 2021/10/9 (Sat) & 2021/10/31 (Sun) The Serikawa Dam has been undergoing seismic reinforcement and equipment repair work for several years as part of the "2021 Great Repair" project. Personally, I had not yet visited the Serikawa Dam, the only dam in the Koto area of Shiga Prefecture, but recently the construction of the main body of the embankment was...
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We present to you again this year! Hatsumode at Jishui-jinja Shrine 2022

Last year, the mudslide in Atami City caused by heavy rains in July left the strongest impression on me personally. The heavy rainfall during the Bon Festival in August was also quite severe. The heavy rainfall during the Bon festival in August was also quite bad, causing many deaths. The damage caused by last year's disaster...
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The dam that goes and the dam that comes 2021-2022

The year 2020 has brought an unprecedented situation unprecedented in human history, and although I thought it would end after a year, the Omicron strain has recently been raging around the world, and we still cannot return to the world as usual. I am fed up with the severe situation, but personally, I go to Yaotsu-cho once a week for my main business...
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