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Japan National Route 163

road in Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 25, 2024
Entity authorityQ6156843 ↗
Source-derived summary

National Route 163 is a national highway of Japan connecting Kita-ku, Osaka and Tsu, Mie in Japan, with a total length of 124.6 km (77.42 mi).

History

Route 163 was designated on 18 May 1953 from Osaka to Yokkaichi. On 1 April 1963 the section from Iga to Yokkaichi was redesignated as a portion of Route 25.

Editorial summary

“Japan National Route 163” 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 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—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.
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“Japan National Route 163” 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

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 25, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6156843. Authority coordinates are 34.698, 135.501. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953 and 1963.

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This entry incorporates text from “Japan National Route 163” 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.