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Japan National Route 242

road in Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 25, 2024
Entity authorityQ6157019 ↗
Source-derived summary

National Route 242 is a national highway of Japan connecting Abashiri, Hokkaidō and Obihiro, Hokkaidō in Japan, with a total length of 284.9 km (177.03 mi).

History

Route 242 was originally designated on 18 May 1953 from Kushiro to Nemuro. This was redesignated as Route 44 on 1 April 1963.

Editorial summary

“Japan National Route 242” enters the record as road in Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Japan, National and Route can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 1963—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Japan, National and Route.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Japan National Route 242” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Japan, National and Route provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Nov 25, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6157019. Authority coordinates are 44.020, 144.268. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953 and 1963.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Japan National Route 242” 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.