Shin Jinma

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...

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 local ni...

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 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. Bones (?) of the aggregate of the Shin Toyone Dam The bones (?) of the aggregate of Shin-Toyone Dam...

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

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

Off-line meeting/event report

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...

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...

Dam in Shiga Prefecture

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...

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...

I have seen the planned site of the Oto River Dam construction.

More than two weeks have passed since the vaccination against the new coronavirus, and the state of emergency declarations have been lifted in many areas, so we have finally resumed our dam tours! So I decided to visit dams in the Koto area of Shiga Prefecture. We crossed the Kurakake Pass on Route 306 and visited Serigawa Dam, Inukamigawa Dam, and Uzogawa Dam...

[Flash Report] Japan Dam Award 2021 Results Announced!

The Japan Dam Award 2021 was held at Tokyo Culture Culture in Shibuya on Saturday, December 25, and the awards for the Discharge Award, Low Water Management Award, Event Award, Flood Control Award, and Dam Grand Prize were announced. Kurobe Dam Maruyama Dam (Kurobe Dam)

drinking at a dam

Also known as dam sake, dam sake is an alcoholic beverage that has been submerged in a dam's audit corridor, rim tunnel, or reservoir to mature. The temperature is always kept constant in summer and winter in the audit corridors and rim tunnels, which is considered suitable for aging. ...

"ta" column or row of the kana syllabary

1512-Fujioka Dam

Date of interview: 04/20/2014 (Sun) Fujioka Dam is a rock-fill dam for irrigation in Tamba-Sasayama City, Hyogo Prefecture, and is one of four dams (Sanaka Dam, Fujioka Dam, Tsubaki Dam, and Yawataya Dam) constructed as part of the prefectural irrigation and drainage project as part of the Sasayama River ...

Hyogo Prefecture Dam

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