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Japan National Route 23

road in Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ5357579 ↗
Source-derived summary

National Route 23 (国道23号, Kokudō nijūsan-gō) is a national highway connecting Toyohashi and Ise, Mie in Japan.

Route data

Length: 213.7 kilometres (132.8 miles)

Origin: Toyohashi (originates at junction with Route 1)

Terminus: Ise (ends at Ise Shrine)

Major cities: Nishio, Nagoya, Yokkaichi and Tsu

History

4 December 1952 - Designated as First Class National Highway 23 (from Yokkaichi, Mie to Ise, Mie)

1 April 1965 - Designated as General National Highway 23 (from Yokkaichi, Mie to Ise, Mie)

1 April 1975 - The highway was extended with the addition of a section between Yokkaichi, Mie and Toyohashi.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Japan National Route 23” is road in Japan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Japan, National and Route, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1952, 1965, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Japan, National and Route is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “road in 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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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5357579. Authority coordinates are 34.768, 137.391. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952, 1965 and 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Japan National Route 23” 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.