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Fudo-ike Dam

dam in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ112739445 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fudo-ike is an earthfill dam located in Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is km2. The dam impounds about 2 ha of land when full and can store 230 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1936.

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“Fudo-ike Dam” enters the record as dam in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fudo-ike, Fukuoka and Prefecture can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fudo-ike, Fukuoka and Prefecture.
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“Fudo-ike Dam” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fudo-ike, Fukuoka and Prefecture provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Q112739445. Authority coordinates are 33.498, 130.218. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fudo-ike 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.