Dam News

Happy New Year! We look forward to working with you again this year. Well, a big news came in early in the new year. A new serial by Yoshihisa Inoue, a manga artist known for his love of dams, will appear in the April issue of Shonen Gahosha's "Monthly Young King Hours GH" (...

The "Japan Dam Awards 2013" were held on December 29 (Sun.) at Culture Culture in Odaiba, Tokyo, on December 30 (Mon.), 2013. The winning nominated dams were first introduced, followed by voting by participants at the venue, and then the winning dams were announced. The following is a list of the award-winning...

The "3rd Gathering with Dam Lovers" was scheduled to be held on October 26. We are very sorry that we had no choice but to cancel the event due to an approaching typhoon! We have rescheduled the event and will hold it on December 7 (Sat.)! As expected, the typhoon will not be coming in December! What? Snow? We will melt it away with our enthusiasm!

The "Gathering with Dam Lovers" has finally come around for the third time! This time, the event will be held at the Nakasato Dam, a key location for water for the Mie River! It is rare to have a tour of an earth dam, but this time we will visit the intake tower and water discharge facilities, which are usually off-limits to visitors, as well as the optional Inabe River intake of the stream intake works (Tyrol II type)!

The "with Dam★Night" event has been held in Tokyo and Kyoto, and will be held in Nagoya on November 18, 2013, a memorable day for civil engineering, under the title "with Dam★Night in Nagoya 2013.

It has been two years since the "1st Dam Mania Exhibition" was held in the fall of 2011. As in the previous exhibition, the "2nd Dam Mania Exhibition" will be held at the Kanagawa Prefectural Sagami Lake Exchange Center near the Sagami Dam from July 9 (Tuesday) to July 15 (Monday, national holiday). This year's exhibition is divided into the themes of "See," "Eat," "Listen," and "Buy," and is sure to satisfy not only dam enthusiasts but also the general public with its substantial contents.

For those of you who participated in the first event, thank you very much for your patience! We are pleased to announce that the second event connecting dam operators and dam enthusiasts will be held as follows! We are looking forward to your participation!

We have decided to hold a "Gathering with Dam Lovers" as a place for dam operators and us dam lovers to interact with each other, with the following details. This time, our site operator, Mr. Jimma, will participate as a commentator. We look forward to your participation!

October 26, 2012 (Friday) Recently, many "dam books" have been published for enthusiasts. Masaki Hagiwara's "Dam" and "Dam 2 (Dum-Dum)" and Saki Miyajima's "Dam Mania" and "The Complete Collection of Dam Cards" are representative of dam fans or those who will...

On August 26, 2012 (Sunday), it was decided that a caravan photo exhibition by dam fans, "Around Japan Dam Fan Photo Exhibition," will be held at dams all over Japan starting this fall. The photos to be exhibited are those taken and carefully selected by the members of "Dam Web Ring," a group of dam enthusiasts. Which...

May 30, 2012 (Wednesday)-The annual open-house event of the Umagajo Dam (1204-Umagajo Dam) will be held again this year on June 3 (Sunday). The dam will be open to the public on Sunday, June 3, this year. The "original purpose of the open house is to increase public understanding and interest in water supply, improve public health and...

On Monday, March 26, 2012, Mr. Saki Miyajima of the website "Dam Mania" will publish a dam book, following on from his very popular dam book "Dam Mania" published last year. The title of the book is "Dam Card Compendium. It is a "dam card catalog," so to speak, covering dam cards. From the cover, you can tell that the book is a...