Shin Jinma

1876-Kurogi Dam

Interview Date: 12/10/2014 (Wed)Following the Tsugawa Dam, we came to the Kuroki Dam. Kuroki Dam, like Tsugawa Dam, is also owned by Okayama Prefecture. Like the Tsugawa Dam, the Kuroki Dam is also an Okayama Prefecture-owned dam and is the same gravity-type concrete dam, but it is 29 years older than the Tsugawa Dam....

2022.09.13

Okayama Prefecture Dam

1907-Tsugawa Dam

Date of the interview: 12/10/2014 (Wednesday)On this day, I decided to visit the dams in Okayama Prefecture to collect materials for the dam New Year's cards I make every year (even though it is already December), and Tsugawa Dam was the first dam I visited. Tsugawa Dam is a multi-purpose dam operated by Okayama Prefecture. The river flowing through Tsugawa Dam is the "Tsugawa River"...

2022.09.04

Okayama Prefecture Dam

Dumb Night 11" at Tokyo Culture Culture on Aug. 21! (Live streaming available!)

The first dam talk live in two years will be held at Tokyo Culture Culture. The three performers will be Masaki Hagiwara of the YouTube channel "Syphon TV," Yosuke Iiboshi, an editor who loves dams, and Naoki Kimishima of the YouTube channel "Dam Tabi Channel...

2022.08.19

Dam News

0567-Numappara Dam / Tochigi Prefecture

Date of visit: 11/19/2014 (Wed)On this day, after visiting the main tour, the Fukayama Dam, via the Shiobara Dam (glimpse only) and the Itamuro Dam (entrance only), the other main dam we were allowed to visit was the Numahara Dam. Pumped-storage power generation is being...

2022.08.19

Tochigi Prefecture Dam

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....

2022.08.11

Dam News

0568-Fukayama Dam (Miyama Dam)

Date of interview: 11/19/2014 (Wednesday)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. It is used for agricultural water and...

2022.08.07

Tochigi Prefecture Dam

0569-Itamuro Dam

Date: 11/19/2014 (Wed)Itamuro Dam is a gravity concrete dam constructed as a reverse control reservoir for the Fukayama Dam upstream and the Itamuro Power Plant of the Tochigi Prefectural Enterprise Bureau. Itamuro Dam also takes in water for irrigation and water supply. Knowing the way to Itamuro Dam, we dare you to visit...

2022.07.15

Tochigi Prefecture Dam

0570-Shiobara Dam

Date of interview: 11/19/2014 (Wednesday)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 Shinkansen 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 drove to the me...

2022.07.10

Tochigi Prefecture Dam

3280-Minamiaki Dam

Interview Date: 08/17/2014 (Sun)We came here after visiting Kurobe Dam and Utsukushi-ga-hara Highland Museum of Art in Toyama on a 2-day/1-night family trip to Namisaki 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...

2022.07.07

Nagano Prefecture Dam

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 reports of local nu...

2022.05.31

Dam log

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. At Ichi Masubin, a famous yakiniku restaurant in Mie...

2022.05.24

Dam in Mie 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. The bones (?) of the aggregate of the Shin-Toyone Dam. The inside of the Shin-Toyone Dam

2022.05.14

Dam in Aichi Prefecture

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 them are fill dams, they are important dams and reservoirs that support agriculture in the Tamba area...

2022.04.23

Driving course

1482-Nagatani Oike Pond

Date: 04/20/2014 (Sun)This was the last stop on my 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, is a history of hardship that can be glimpsed from a stone monument at the site....

2022.04.19

Hyogo Prefecture Dam

3045-Mitakara Dam

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

2022.04.04

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 a reference to the Genpei...

2022.03.10

Hyogo Prefecture Dam

3367-Sanaka Dam

Date of interview: 04/20/2014 (Sun) 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. The embankment...

2022.03.05

Hyogo Prefecture Dam

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...

2022.02.24

Dam log

Momosuke Fukuzawa

Reading: Momosuke Fukuzawa (福ざわ桃スケ) Attached Name: Momosuke Fukuzawa Maiden Name: Momosuke Iwasaki Momosuke Fukuzawa was a businessman active from the late Meiji period to the early Showa period. He was mainly active in the Japanese electric power industry and was nicknamed the "King of Electric Power in Japan. Momosuke Fukuzawa, maiden name Momosuke Iwasaki, was born in Arako Village, Yokomi-gun, Musashi Province,...

2022.02.23

Introduction to Damsdam terminology"ha" column or row of the kana syllabary

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...

2022.02.11

Off-line meeting/event report

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