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Uokiri Dam

dam in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ17194058 ↗
Source-derived summary

Uokiri Dam (Japanese: 魚切ダム) is a gravity dam located in Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for flood control, water supply and power production. The catchment area of the dam is 38.4 km2. The dam impounds about 40 ha of land when full and can store 8460 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1971 and completed in 1981.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Uokiri Dam” is dam in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Uokiri, Hiroshima and Prefecture, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1981—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971. For this dossier, Uokiri, Hiroshima and Prefecture is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “dam in Hiroshima Prefecture, 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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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 Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17194058. Authority coordinates are 34.427, 132.330. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971 and 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “Uokiri 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.