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Inuzuka-ike Dam

dam in Ehime Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ112577792 ↗
Source-derived summary

Inuzuka-ike Dam (犬塚池, Inuzuka-ike) is an earthfill dam located near the city of Imabari in Ehime Prefecture in Japan and used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 3.8 square kilometres. The dam impounds about 11 hectares of land when full and can store 609 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started in 1935 and completed by 1938.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Inuzuka-ike Dam” is dam in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Inuzuka-ike, Ehime 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—1935, 1938—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1935. For this dossier, Inuzuka-ike, Ehime and Prefecture is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “dam in Ehime 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 Q112577792. Authority coordinates are 34.024, 132.977. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1935 and 1938.

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This entry incorporates text from “Inuzuka-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.