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Azuma Dam (Chiba)

dam in Chiba Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ32826652 ↗
Source-derived summary

Azuma Dam is an earthfill dam located in Chiba Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for water supply. The catchment area of the dam is 5.2 km2. The dam impounds about 9 ha of land when full and can store 450 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1973 and completed in 1976.

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

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973. For this dossier, Azuma, Chiba and Prefecture is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “dam in Chiba Prefecture, Japan” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q32826652. Authority coordinates are 35.237, 140.308. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1973 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Azuma Dam (Chiba)” 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.