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Akasaka Dam

dam in Saga Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ32825093 ↗
Source-derived summary

Akasaka Dam is a rockfill dam located in Saga Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for agriculture. The catchment area of the dam is 0.4 km2. The dam impounds about 19 ha of land when full and can store 1460 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1972 and completed in 1992.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Akasaka Dam” is dam in Saga Prefecture, Japan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Akasaka, Saga and Prefecture, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1460, 1972, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972. For this dossier, Akasaka, Saga and Prefecture is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q32825093. Authority coordinates are 33.413, 129.896. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1460, 1972 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Akasaka Dam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.