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Iseki-ike Dam

dam in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ113499346 ↗
Source-derived summary

Iseki-ike (Japanese: 井関池) is an earthfill dam located in Kagawa Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 3.3 km2. The dam impounds about 14 ha of land when full and can store 540 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1982.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Iseki-ike Dam” as dam in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Iseki-ike, Kagawa and Prefecture can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as dam in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113499346. Authority coordinates are 34.066, 133.686. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Iseki-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.