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Majimegawa Dam

dam in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ11583483 ↗
Source-derived summary

Majimegawa Dam is an earthfill dam located in Yamaguchi prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for flood control. The catchment area of the dam is 2.4 km2. The dam impounds about 12 ha of land when full and can store 842 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1992 and completed in 2008.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992. The account is most persuasive where Majimegawa, Yamaguchi and Prefecture can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as dam in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Q11583483. Authority coordinates are 33.993, 131.270. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Majimegawa 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.